Myanmar Port Authority will only compensate for crops in Thilawa
Published on Sunday, 21 July 2013 17:13
A scene of Thilawa Port seen in June (Photo-Shun Le Win/EMG)
Although local residents have demanded the authorities to compensate confiscated lands for the Thilawa port project, Myanmar Port Authority said they will only compensate for the crops but not the land.
"During our last meeting with officials from Myanmar Port Authority, they told us that they will give worthy compensation for the crops. They will have to submit to the authorities for compensate for the lands. As for me, I don't want to give away my 47 acres of farmlands for only crop compensation," said Tin Ohne, a farmer from Shwepyitharyar ward, Baypauk village in Thilawa area.
"It's impossible to make us move away by only paying compensation for the crops. We need to get appropriate compensation in order to invest for our future," said a local villager from Ayemyathida ward in Thilawa area.
"We told the farmers the extent of how much we can pay as compensation. Besides, these lands have been bought by the Human Settlement and Housing Development," said an official from Myanmar Port Authority.
Myanmar government started planning the Thilawa Special Economic Zone by dividing the port construction area in Thilawa Special Economic Zone into 37 land plots, each of which are 200 metres wide on the river front and 750 metres long inward the land. These lands have been permitted for the construction of the economic zone in 2000 in accord with 1953 Land Nationalization Act.
Myanmar Ports Authority has received US$204 million as official development assistance (ODA) from Japan for the construction of Thilawa economic zone.
Source: http://www.news.myanmaronlinecentre.com/2013/07/21/myanmar-port-authority-will-only-compensate-for-crops-in-thilawa/
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