Mandalay City is free of Plastic Bags

            "As Mandalay City Development Committee has been implementing the project which is to make the Mandalay City pre of Plastic Bags since June 2009, it can be said that Mandalay is now free of Plastic Bags" the responsible person of cleansing Department of Mandalay City Development Committee.

            It is known that the use of Plastic Bags can be controlled because there has not be seen the use of Plastic Bags in the five townships of Mandalay City.

            "We have been collecting the bags after 21 June which prohibited the use of Plastic Bags. There has been no important Plastic Bags to Mandalay. But there has been a little in the City subhurb which is so far from the City. Amarapura, mean  Mandalay City, has also been starting the project.

            "Beside five townships of Mandalay Municipal area, Amarapura which is under the control of the Ministry of Border Area and National Races and Development Affairs has also been implementing   the free of Plastic Bags.

            Mandalay City Development Committee distributed 200,000 paper bags free while is has been implementing the project. " Now , the use of Plastic Bags is looser than before. Shopping Center and restaurant used Soft Plastic Bags instead of Plastic Bags. It has been seen that Plastic Bags. It has been seen that Plastic Bags which is left in handhold has been still used the City lived in Pyi Gyi Tagon township.

ၾကြပ္ၾကြပ္အိတ္ကင္းစင္ေသာ မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္

မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္စည္ပင္သာယာေရးေကာ္မတီက ယခုႏွစ္ ဇြန္လမွစ၍ ၾကြပ္ၾကြပ္အိတ္ကင္းစင္ေသာ ျမိဳ႕ေတာ္ျဖစ္ရန္ စီမံခ်က္တစ္ရပ္အေနျဖင့္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့ရာ ယခုအခါ မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္တြင္ ၾကြပ္ၾကြပ္အိတ္သုံးစြဲမႈ ကင္းစင္သြားၿပီဟု ဆိုႏိုင္ၿပီျဖစ္သည္။

        In commemoration of the Sesquicentennial Anniversary of the fandry of the Yadanabon Mandalay Capital; the seminar was held on April 28 morning at Union Solidary Development Association Hall.
        Present on the occauion were departmental officials. authoritire concerned with commemoration ceremony, and  local people.
        The Seminar would be holding daily until 30th. April.
       ရတနာပံု မႏၱေလး ၿမိဳ႕တည္ နန္းတည္ ႏွစ္(၁၅၀)ျပည့္ပြဲေတာ္ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ စာတမ္းဖတ္ပြဲကို ဧၿပီ ၂၈ရက္ ယေန႕မွ စတင္ၿပီး မႏၱေလးတိုင္းျပည္ေထာင္စုၾကံ့ခိုင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရးအသင္း ခန္းမတြင္ နံနက္ ၉နာရီမွ ညေန ေလးနာရီအထိ က်င္းပရာ စာတမ္းဖတ္ပြဲ က်င္းပေရးအဖြဲ႕ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေရွးေဟာင္းသုေတသန၊ ျပတိုက္ႏွင့္စာၾကည့္တိုက္ဦးစီးဌာန ဒုတိယညႊန္ၾကားေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဦးစိန္၀င္းက သဘာပတိအျဖစ္ေဆာင္ရြက္ၿပီးစာတမ္းရွင္မ်ားက စာတမ္းမ်ားကို အသီးသီးဖတ္ၾကားၾကၿပီး ေမးျမန္းလိုသည္မ်ားကို ေမးျမန္းေဆြးေႏြးၾကသည္။ စာတမ္းဖတ္ပြဲအား သံုးရက္တိုင္တိုင္က်င္းပသြားမည္ျဖစ္သည္။

ပထမေန႕ဖတ္ၾကားေသာစာတမ္းမ်ား

Location

               Mandalay is located on the eastern bank of the Ayeyawaddy River, in the central part of Myanmar, about 700 kilometres north of the capital Yangon. It is located at 96° 06 minutes of east longitude and 21° 59 minutes of north latitude and at the altitude of 74. 07 metres above sea level.

                Located to the east of the city are the Yan Kin Hill and the Shan mountain ranges; to the west, the Ayeyawaddy, the Sagaing Hills, the Minwun Ranges, the Moe Meik Hill and Min Gun; to the south, the Dokhtawaddy ( Myit Nge ) River; and to the north, the town of Mattaya. 

Areas

               The city of Mandalay is 113.26 square kilometres wide, having the length of 16.83 kilometres from north to south and that of 8.75 kilometres from east to west.

Population

               The city of Mandalay is made up of five townships, namely, Aung Mye Tharzan, Chan Aye Tharzan, Maha Aung Mye, Chan Mya Tharzi and Pyi Gyi Tagun, having eighty-six quarters. The population of Mandalay is 801,707 people in 2000 and the population increase rate is 2.8 percent. According to the census of 1992, the population of Mandalay was 653, 322 people. It is estimated that the population will rise to over one million and a half by the year 2020.

Education

   1. University of Mandalay

   2. Mandalay University of Distance Education

   3. Mandalay University of Foreign Languages

   4. Mandalay Technological University

   5. Mandalay University of Medicine

   6. Yadanarbon University

   7. University of Traditional Medicine, Mandalay

Climate

                Mandalay being located in the central part of Myanmar, and being an inland area far from the sea, the temperature is high in the dry season and the cold is intense in the cold season. The rainfall is scarce, and the city has a dry climate.The hot season is from March to June, the hottest month having the temperatures of 105° Fahrenheit ( 40.5° C ) to 110° Fahrenheit ( 43.3° C ). The average temperature of the dry season is 88° Fahrenheit ( 31.3° C ).The cold season lasts from November to February. The temperature in the coldest month is lower than 50° Fahrenheit ( 10° C ). The average temperature in the cold season is 70° Fahrenheit ( 21.1° C ).

              The period from July to October is the rainy season, which has the average rainfall of 86.36cm. The average rainfall per year being lower than 101.6cm, the city has the warm and dry climate.

The Mya Nan San Kyaw The Golden Palace

                  King Mindon, who founded the Royal City of Yatanabon, built the Mya Nan San Kyaw, the Royal Palace, on 6th waning day of Kason, M.E 1221 ( A.D 1857 ). It is surrounded by the rectangular shaped walls, each of which stretches 8.25 kilometres long, and again by the moat which is 68.58m wide and 3.35m deep. Formerly, there existed 114 royal apartments, which, being built on 3.35m high platform, covered 152.4m wide. On 17 March, 1945, during the air raid of the British forces against the Japanese, the Royal Palace was ruined into ashes. With the objective of re-establishing the milestone in Myanmar tradition and ancient times, when Myanmar had their own monarchs, their own royal palace and their own soverignity, the Royal Palace has been renovated and restored faithfully into its original structure. The 89 main halls were re-built with reference to the original photographs, pictures, palm-leaf manuscripts with reference to the original photographs, pictures, palm leaf manuscripts about the royal apartments and the miniature model of the royal palace. On 18-9-96, the complete construction of the Mya Nan San Kyaw the Golden Palace was successfully celebrated.

                    Mandalay City Development Committee has been undertaking the task of removing the pond scum of the moat as the cleaning work of the royal moat, which bears a grace and a pride to the city : 4 large-scale pond scum-removing machines, 3 small pond scum-removing machines and 62 appointed workers remove about seven tons of pound scum per day. Activities such as mowing and making the crash barriers even, replacing the dead plants with new ones, and giving care to the growth of the plants have been routine tasks.