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YANGON: Myanmar has been placing emphasis on taking
preventive measures against natural disaster, especially after the
country was severely hit by a tropical cyclone storm Nargis early
last month that killed over 77,000 people.
Taking lesson of the bitter
experience, Myanmar is starting to introduce life jackets to all
people in cyclone-hit coastal areas in Yangon division as part of
its preventive measures against natural disaster, according to the
Biweekly Eleven journal Friday.
Such distribution is being
initially made to each villager in Kungyangon and Latkokegon
townships in the division, the report said.
In the wake of a landslide caused
by six-hour midnight torrential rain on June 11 to 12 in Myanmar’s
northern part of Mogok, which claimed the lives of 11 people, the
authorities is also taking preventive measures against floods caused
by torrential rains, calling on people to exercise a constant
vigilance against floods triggered by swelling rivers, creeks and
streams in the coastal regions and northern part of Myanmar with
torrential rains as there used to be heavy rains in June and July.
With the assistance of experts
from the Tokyo University of Japan and with the combination of
technical know-how applied in most cyclone-hit Bangladesh, Pakistan
and India, and that of Myanmar’s local regions, a first-ever
cyclone-resistant model village is planned to be constructed in the
country, according to the Myanmar Engineers’ Association.
Such model village will be
initially built in suitable location in Yangon division, one of two
cyclone-hardest-hit divisions after Ayeyawaddy delta, by taking two
years and is targeted to be completed by February 2010.
The 40-house model village will
comprise storm shelter, water distribution system using natural
gravity, solar energy power supply system and cyclone-resistant
apartments, the association said.
Referring the model village,
cyclone shelters will be built in 500 villages in disaster-hit
regions to resist cyclone and earthquake attack in the future.
A sample cyclone shelter will be
constructed at a village in Ayeya-waddy division.
--Xinhua
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