Yangon, 15 January
A ceremony to provide social pension to elderly people above 85 years old was held at the meeting hall of the township General Administration Department in Mingala Taungnyunt Township, Yangon Region yesterday afternoon.
At the event, the township Acting Administrator U Khin Maung Nyein delivered an opening speech and handed over K 15.0 million to concerned village Administrators in the township for the months of October, November and December.
The social pension was provided by Department of Social Welfare under Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement.
Altogether 502 elderly people who are eligible for social pension in ward-20 in the township received social pension.—District IPRD
Translated by JT
