Myanmar is planning to move Laputta,one of the cyclone-hardest-hit coastal townships in southwestern Ayeyawaddy delta region, to a new location, reported 7-Day News Wednesday without specifying the place where the new township is to be rebuilt.
Laputta, which lies near the mouth of sea, was devastated by a recent severe cyclone storm early last month.
All schools, offices and hospitals will be constructed in the planned new township, the report said, adding that an orphanage will be set up near a high school.
However, original inhabitants of Laputta will be allowed to stay back out of their own volition, the report also said.
Soon after the storm, more than 30,000 victims in Laputta were evacuated to lesser-affected nearby areas for shelter.
Laputta, which comprises 63 wards and villages, was totally destroyed by the storm.
More than a month after the disaster, Myanmar has started land reclamation in Laputta township. With a loan of over 441 million Kyats (over 400,000 U.S. dollars) disbursed to farmers in the area,the authorities have also reportedly provided paddy seeds and fertilizer for the restoration agricultural works in the area.
Besides sending some 600 buffaloes to the area, the authoritieswere also providing 238 powered tillers for ploughing some paddy fields in the area damaged by the storm. Some hundreds more have also been supplied to other devastated townships such as Ngaputtaw,Mawlamyinegyun and Bogalay in the same Ayeyawaddy division.
With an area of 13,525.88 square-miles (35,018.5 square-kilometers), Ayeyawaddy division, which is known as Myanmar's "rice bowl", comprises 26 townships with Pathein as its main city and most of the townships lying in the delta region.
The division has a population of less than 6.5 million after disaster, according to official statistics.
The statistics show over 1 million acres (405,000 hectares) of cultivable land 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.
Myanmar estimated the damage and loss caused by the storm at 10.67 billion U.S. dollars with 5.5 million people affected.
Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, 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 77,738 people and left 55,917 missing and 19,359 injured, according to the official death toll reports.
Source:Xinhua
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