By Xinhua,
Yangon : A 92 percent of electric power supply has resumed in cyclone-hit Yangon division of Myanmar more than a month after a cyclone storm hit the country, according to the local-language Myanmar Times Thursday.
Nearly 5,000 damaged lamp-posts have been substituted with new ones with 4,700 downed lamp-posts put upright again, the report said, adding that new power lines, which stretch over 90,000 meters, and old such lines, which extend as 690,000 meters, have been respectively added and reinstalled, the report said.
New lamp posts were supplied from other regions of Bago, Nay Pyi Taw, Mandalay, Sagaing and Taunggyi, it also said.
According to official statistics, the power sector in Yangon division inflicted a loss of over 5 billion Kyats (4.54 million U.S. dollars) with Yangon’s east district and south district standing the heaviest.
Meanwhile, Myanmar’s biggest industrial zone of Hlaingtharya in Yangon, which was seriously destroyed in the cyclone storm, has almost resumed operation with 95 percent of the 800 factories going into production since late last month.
The zone has resumed production after 156 collapsed lamp-posts which carry electricity were rapidly reinstalled, the zone’s administration said.
During the storm, most of the roofs of the factories in the industrial zone were blown to pieces and the factories’ operation had to be suspended.
The industrial zone sustained a property loss of 3 billion Kyats (2.7 million U.S. dollars), according to other local news report.
Myanmar claimed that the first phase of its post-disaster restoration work — rescue and relief, has finished and it is now entering into a second phase of resettlement and reconstruction.
Under the post-disaster restoration plan, 30 Myanmar private companies have been taking part in the restoration work in cyclone-hit regions with assignments by the government to take the responsibility of undertaking resettlement work in 17 affected townships.
The authorities also claimed that over 76 percent of communication links and over 98 percent of the water supply have resumed in the city of Yangon.