By Xinhua,
Yangon : About 30 Myanmar private companies have been taking part in restoration work in cyclone-hit regions under the government’ post-disaster plan, according to Saturday’s leading weekly Voice.
With assignments by the government, these company are undertaking relief and resettlement work in 17 affected townships as an initial move of the government’s restoration plan.
The 17 townships, scattered in the southwestern Ayeyawaddy and Yangon divisions, cover Laputta, Bogalay, Phyarpon, Mawlamyinegyun,Haing Gyigyun Island, Ngaputaw, Kyaiklat, Dedaye in Ayeyawaddy division, while Kawmu, Kungyangon, Twantay, Thanlyin, Kyauktan, Kayan, Thonkwa, Dalla and Seikkyi Kanaungto in Yangon division.
These leading business companies, respectively led by some ministers or high-ranking officials, involve Max Myanmar, Wa Wa Win, Ayeya Shwewa, Shwe Than Lwin, Zaykaba, Yuzana, Dagon International, Htoo, Tetlan, Taw Wynn, Asia World and Naing Group.
Myanmar has outlined three phases of restoration work plan after being deadly hit by a tropical cyclone Nargis early this month, calling for implementation of the plan with internal and international assistance.
The government has also claimed that the first phase of rescue of storm victims, provision of temporary shelter, supply of food and clothes and healthcare has been underway to some extent, while the present second phase sets domestic construction entrepreneurs to take part in the rehabilitation of the victims by promptly helping rebuild their respective wrecked houses in towns and villages mainly in the two divisions.
The third step is to re-generate farmlands, flooded by sea water in the storm, by building embankments and sluice gates, repairing of destroyed dams and provision of paddy strains which are resistant to sea water.
A deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states — Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin on May 2 and 3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and infrastructural damage.
Hard-hit coastal towns in the southwestern Ayeyawaddy division include Haing Gyi Island, Laputta, Mawlamyinegyun, Bogalay, Phyarpon, Kyaiklat, Ngaputaw, and Dedaye, while worst-hit areas in Yangon division comprise Kungyangon, Thanlyin, Kyauktan, Twantay, Kawmu as well as the Yangon city.
According to a latest official death toll released on Friday evening, as many as 77,738 people have been killed in the disaster with 55,917 still missing and 19,359 injured.