Bhamo, 1 October

A ceremony to provide social pension to elderly people above 85 years old was held at the meeting hall of the township General Administration Department in Bhamo, Kachin State yesterday afternoon.

Pyi Thu Hluttaw Representative U Aung Thein, the township Administrator U Soe Myint Hlaing and officials from Department of Social Welfare under Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement handed over K 9.5 million to elderly people in the township for the months of July, August and September in this year. 

Altogether 318 elderly people who are eligible for social pension in the township received K 10000 each, it is learnt.

District IPRD
Translated by JT