Villages need to install solar panels for generating electricity for contributing to the electricity consumption of the people as well as improvement of their living standards, said Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing in inspecting the 30-megawatt Thabyewa solar power plant project in Thabyewa Village of Thazi Township, Mandalay Region, yesterday morning.
Chairman of Clean Power Energy Co. Ltd U Thaung Kyaing reported on the implementation of the solar power plant project, efficient use of land plots, suspension of project and continuation, installation of machinery at the project, assistance for rural development, and feeding of electricity to the national grid, and the Senior General asked for further information.
The Senior General viewed the documentary video on the solar power project implemented by Clean Power Energy Co. Ltd.
In his speech, the Senior General said the solar power plants must be built in the country for meeting the electricity demand of the State. Despite high investments, generating electricity via solar panels has advantages in the short term of construction and lesser cost later. Villages need to install solar panels for generating electricity for contributing to the electricity consumption of the people as well as improvement of their living standards. Solar power can be applied for taking agricultural water. The government will provide necessary assistance for generating electricity through solar panels.
The Senior General then visited the project site and left the necessary instructions.
The 30-megawatt Thabyewa solar power plant project was implemented by Clean Power Energy (CPE) Co., Ltd. through a BOO (Build, Operate, Own) system. It was launched on 5 December to supply electricity. A total of 83,752 solar panels were installed at the plant in addition to 126 inverters and five box transformers for generating more than 200,000 kilowatt-hours per day and 70.599 million kWh per year. The electricity from the plant is fed to the national grid via Thabyewa main station for meeting the electricity demand of the nation on one hand.
At the Flying Training Base in Meiktila, the Senior General heard reports on the implementation of the Pankhinn project in cooperation with other ministries, issuance of citizenship scrutiny cards in Mandalay Region and the interrelations between the Pankhinn project and e-ID system by Union minister U Khin Yi of the Ministry of Immigration and Population.
In his instructions, the Senior General said that citizenship scrutiny cards must be issued to all citizens born of Myanmar citizen parents. Relevant scrutiny cards must be released to those who are deserved for having citizenship and associate citizens under the 1982 Myanmar Citizenship Law. As Meiktila Township has completed issuance of the CSC to local people, accounting for more than 77 per cent, and he urged all to complete the work process as the model of the whole nation.
The Senior General viewed issuance of CSC for the people of 10 years old, change of CSC with new ones for those of 18 years old in the precinct of the monastery in Hsekon Village in Meiktila Township and urged staff to systematically store the data in a computerized system.
Hsekon Village of Myinkan village-tract in Meiktila Township is home to 959 people in 198 households. As of yesterday morning, the work procedures are being run to issue the CSC to the people under the Pankhinn project. So far, 101 people of 138 persons who need the CSC have been issued the ID, accounting for 73.18 per cent completion. —MNA
