With the aim of boosting the income of local people and their socio-economic status, loans for emerald green project were dispensed to farmers at the Sakawar Mye hall of the township General Administration Department yesterday

An inauguration of a two-storey building was held in a basic education high school (branch) in Pharpyin Village, Phakant Township in Kachin State yesterday morning.

The department dug up tube-wells, repaired earthen lakes, installed water tanks and set up water treatment plants in four separate villages by spending Ks. 133.82 million allotted in the fiscal year 2018-2019. All tasks are undertaken by inviting a tender to the private companies and the projects have been about 40 percent finished, said an official from the DRD.