A ceremony to present Public Science Treatises Volumes VIII and IX and modern Public Science Treatises donated by State Administration Council Chairman Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and his wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla to libraries, military headquarters, regiments and units across the nation, along with the Yangon’s fifth books and publications donation event, took place in Yangon yesterday.
Speaking at the event, Union Minister for Information U Maung Maung Ohn, in his capacity as Chairman of the Myanmar Libraries Development Cooperation Committee, mentioned the guidance of the Head of the State highlighting “an illiterate person is like a person sitting who don’t move forward while a literate person is like a walking person”, and added that a book that one has not read is a new book. Plans are underway to reissue good books out of the old books. The readers should read, memorize and think. Some youths go to wrong way after being persuaded by the unscrupulous people as they do not read and are poor in knowledge.
The Head of State organized reading habit-raising campaigns to develop human resources. However, the unscrupulous people intentionally spread misinformation and disinformation to mislead the people. Therefore, arrangements should be made to provide the public with proper knowledge to know the actual situation.
The Union minister then handed over copies of Public Science Treatises Volumes VIII and IX and 411 copies of modern Public Science Treatises to Yangon Region Chief Minister U Soe Thein on behalf of the Prime Minister and his wife for 137 libraries in Yangon. He also presented 50 dishes and 100 DTH devices for Yangon Region to the chief minister.
He then handed over 1,500 copies of Public Science Treatises Volumes VIII and IX and modern Public Science Treatises to the relevant officials on behalf of the Prime Minister and his wife for military headquarters, regiments, and units, and 2,589 copies of Public Science Treatises Volumes VIII and IX and modern Public Science Treatises for the Myanmar Libraries Foundation.
Afterwards, the Union minister and the regional chief minister drew lots for dishes and DTH devices.
The Union minister and party presented K25 million worth of books and publications donated by the Yangon Region Libraries Supervisory Committee for ward and village libraries for the fifth time to the respective librarians, and National Literary Award winner Sayama Ma Sandar gave a talk on raising reading habit. The students from No 1 BEHS Dagon and No 4 BEHS Ahlon performed and the Union minister presented cash prizes to Sayama Ma Sandar and students. The Union minister and party also attended the Yangon Region agriculture and breeding exhibition marking the 63rd Peasants’ Day in Hlinethaya (East) township on the same morning.
At the event, the Union minister and party presented excellency awards in agriculture, breeding and creating a model village for the Mya Sein Yaung meat sector project in Yangon Region. — MNA/KTZH
