It is necessary to take special care of security as the Kathina robe offering ceremony will be held at national level: Vice-Senior General

A coordination meeting of the Leading Committee on Organizing the Kathina Robe Offering Ceremony for 2021 of the State Administration Council of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar took place at the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture yesterday afternoon, with an address by Patron of the Leading Committee Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win.
In his address, the Vice-Senior General said the Kathina robe offering ceremony was organized by the government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar in Myanmar ten times as of 2012. This year, the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture selected Aungsitha monastery in Pobbathiri Township to accept the Kathina robes and supplicated the abbot of the monastery for the ceremony.
The leading committee and the working committee have been formed to successfully hold the ceremony. The ministry also formed 11 subcommittees for systematic carrying out of the assigned duties.
Kathina robes will be donated to 18 members of the Sangha —nine Ovadacariya Sayadaws of Uppatasanti Pagoda, four members of the Sangha from Nay Pyi Taw Sangha Nayaka Committee and five from the Kathina accepting monastery.
Emphasis must be placed on offering meals to the monks in a healthy manner. The health subcommittee must be ready to provide healthcare services if necessary. The Vice-Senior General underscored the need to open the western clinic and traditional medicine clinic at the monastic halls and spray Sasana Maha Beikman, Sangharama halls and other halls for disinfection of the disease.
It is necessary to take special care of security as the Kathina robe offering ceremony will be held at the national level.
Chairman of the leading committee Union Minister for Religious Affairs U Ko Ko reported on arrangements to successfully hold the 2021 Kathina robe offering ceremony of the State Administration Council and Deputy Minister U Aye Tun on tasks of the working committee.
Officials from respective subcommittees discussed matters related to their subcommittees and deputy ministers gave supplementary reports.
Later, the Vice-Senior General gave a concluding remark.— MNA