Quake-hit schools, monasteries to be reconstructed by 2013

Quake-hit schools, monasteries to be reconstructed by 2013

Published on Sunday, 02 December 2012 00:57

Schools and Buddhist monasteries that were destroyed in the November earthquake will be reconstructed by 2013, according to a source at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement.
The cost for each timber house is estimated at 1.7 million kyats. If people want to construct their houses, the ministry will give the same amount of cash, he said.
 However, the schools will be reconstructed with the budget of the Ministry of Education by 2013.
"The ministry has advised people to construct timber houses as they are more resistant to earthquake," he said.
The 6.8-magnitude quake, centred at 45 miles north of Shwebo township in central Myanmar on November 11, caused the collapse of some Buddhist monasteries, pagodas, religious buildings, houses, office buildings and schools in nearby townships.
Local and international organisations are now doing relief and rehabilitation work in the quake-affected areas.
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement is offering 100,000 kyats to the families of the dead and 25,000 for every injured person.
 A total of 3,200 houses, 359 schools, 1,121 religious buildings and 910 pagodas were destroyed in the earthquake that left 17 dead and more than 100 injured in Mandalay, Sagain, Thabaikkyin and Singu townships.

Source: http://www.news.myanmaronlinecentre.com/2012/12/02/quake-hit-schools-monasteries-to-be-reconstructed-by-2013/