Establishment of school and community libraries helps produce well-versed youths

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing stressed the need to establish school libraries and community libraries for the emergence of well-versed youths.

A ceremony to donate books and publications to libraries of Myanmar Libraries Foundation and military headquarters, regiments, and units across the nation took place at the Na­tional Library in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning, attended by Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and his wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla.

In his speech, the Senior General said that his family would donate 1,500 copies each of Luhtu Theinpan (Public Science Treatises) in three volumes, totalling 4,500 copies — 3,000 to librar­ies of Myanmar Libraries Foundation and 1,500 copies to libraries of military headquarters, regiments and units. If the fourth and fifth volumes of such treatises have been published, the Sen­ior General said his families will donate them to libraries.

The Senior General continued to say that the government creates learn­ing opportunities for all school-age chil­dren to have free education at the ba­sic education level, aiming to produce educated youths, enable all school-age children to attend school, minimize un­timely dropout of students for various reasons and increase changing up of student grades.

Currently, the Senior General dis­closed that some three million people are graduates among more than 56 million people. Statistics show that 70 per cent of the 25.17 million population above 25 years old have completed middle school education, and 13 per cent of graduates are technological and vocational diploma holders across the nation. As most of the students drop out of school at the end of primary ed­ucation, he noted that the government is implementing the KG+9 educational scheme.