Hluttaw hears complaints

Hluttaw hears complaints

By Si Thu Lwin   |   Sunday, 03 November 2013

The Mandalay Region Hluttaw received 94 complaints or petitions from residents this year, most of them related to farmland disputes, court judgments, religious affairs and problems with municipal departments, a hluttaw working committee report says.

Committee member U Pyae Win, a representative of Maha Aung Myay 2, said complaints are examined and sent to the relevant government departments, which then make recommendations to the hluttaw.

"The hluttaw can then make decisions based on the recommendations from the departments," U Pyae Win told The Myanmar Times. "But some complaints do not concern the regional hluttaw."

According to a working committee report submitted to the hluttaw during its seventh session, which ran from September 11-26, 46 of the complaints were forwarded to the Regional Government Office, eight were sent to the regional hluttaw, and two were transferred to Regional Attorney General's Office.

Another 38 were still under examination at the time the report was submitted. Moreover, the parliamentary working committee has already submitted a further 54 complaints from Mandalay Region to the hluttaw after receiving them from an Amyotha Hluttaw committee.

Translation by Zar Zar Soe

Source: http://www.news.myanmaronlinecentre.com/2013/11/03/hluttaw-hears-complaints/