MoI Union Minister reviews Sarso Beikman groundbreaking preparations
Union Minister for Information U Maung
Maung Ohn inspected the preparations for a groundbreaking ceremony of the
three-storey RC Sarso Beikman building in Mingala Taungnyunt Township of Yangon
yesterday.
First, Project Director Daw Yu Yu Naing
from Myanmar Land & Development Ltd reported on the construction site.
Then, the Union minister instructed to
grow trees and plants in the Sarso Beikman compound, complete the display, the
progress and ongoing stages model of the building structure for the
groundbreaking ceremony, meet the international museum standards as the
palm-leaf manuscripts and Parabaik will be placed, use quality construction
materials, conduct proper negotiation as it is a national-level building as an
India-Myanmar friendship symbol, and place statues of significant literary
scholars of three eras, recipients of the National Lifetime Award for Literary
Achievement and poets.
The Union minister also inspected the
Sarso Beikman construction site and upgrading works on the former game city
building into the Sarpay Beikman public library.
Sarso Beikman will be constructed on
2.18 acres of land plot in Mingala Taungnyunt Township as per the directives of
the Head of State to collect books, photo records and statues of great
intellectuals, hold educational talks and dialogues and also for public
recreation, made on 24 September 2021.
The Printing and Publishing Department
of the Ministry of Information led the construction project, and the Urban and
Housing Development Department of the Ministry of Construction designed the
building and estimated the cost.
Myanmar and India signed a Project
Agreement for the Sarso Beikman construction project on 18 March 2024.
It will be a three-storey RC with 160
feet by 140 feet by 57 feet and eight inches and 52,128 square feet.
It is a two-year project, and the
construction of Sarso Beikman will begin soon. — MNA/ KTZH
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