Storm-hit region in quick recovery in Myanmar: media
16/10/2008 16:14
The storm-hard-hit region of Dedaye in Myanmar's southwestern Ayeyawaddy
division is in quick recovery with almost all ravaged houses already rebuilt,
according to the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar today.
Several
construction companies have rebuilt many housing estates for the survived
cyclone victims in a number of villages such as Kyondah, Toe, Thandeik, Kanhseik
and Kadah.
A total of 383 lakes and over 100 basic education schools in the
region, destroyed in a severe cyclone storm in early last May, have been
repaired, the report said.
According to the report, since schools in the
region were reopened in June this year for the academic year 2008-09, a total of
37,368 students enrolled, 4 percent more than the previous year.
Dealing with
agricultural work resumption efforts, a total of over 300 cattle, 870 power
tillers, over 1,000 tons of paddy seeds and over 200,000 gallons of fuel have
been provided by the government with monsoon paddy of over 73,767 hectares
having been regrown, it said, adding that fishing undertakings have also been
underway.
Meanwhile, hundreds of destroyed rice mills in two storm-hit
divisions of Yangon and Ayeyawaddy, have also resumed operation after prompt
repair, official sources said.
Ayeyawaddy division was traditionally known as
the "rice bowl" of Myanmar.
In the cyclone disaster, over 1 million acres
(405,000 hectares) of cultivable lands were flooded with sea water in 7
townships in Ayeyawaddy division, 3 in Yangon division, 2 in Bago division and 3
in Mon state during the storm with over 200,000 draught cattle killed, official
statistics showed.
Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis hit five divisions and
states - Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin on last May 2 and 3, of which
Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive
infrastructural damage.
The storm has killed 84,537 people, leaving 53,836
missing and 19,359 injured according to official death toll.
Xinhua
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