Pinlaung, 15 September

A ceremony to provide social pension to elderly people above 85 years old was held at the meeting room of the township General Administration Department in Pinlaung, the Pa'O Self-Administered Zone, Shan State (South) this morning.

At the event, officials from the township Department of Social Welfare handed over K 11.16 million to respective village-tract administrators.

Under this cash aid program, 372 senior citizens who are eligible for social pension in wards and villages in the township received K 30000 each via respective village-tract administrators for the months of July, August and September.—Khun Akar Soe

Translated by JT