Government schools wanting to teach Mon literature have had the deadline for submitting their lists of Mon Literature teachers and their students to the Mon State Education Office extended to the end of June.
U Myo Tint Aung, the Mon State Education Office director said: “In the past, we have said that the lists must be submitted to our state office by the 10th [of June] but they are not ready yet. That’s why we have changed the deadline so that they [the schools] can submit their lists at the end of this month.”
He said that once the lists have been submitted and recorded for each township the schools can teach Mon literature.
In the Mon State Hluttaw (parliament) the Mon State Social Affairs Minister Dr Htein Linn said that in the previous academic year Mon literature teachers had received a stipend of 30,000 kyats per month and that for this year the stipends will be increased as long as the Union budget for the 2016 to 2017 financial year is increased.
He also said that following negotiations with the Union Education Minister the stipends would be paid monthly rather than as a lump sum at the end of the academic year as had been previously done to teachers of all ethnic literatures in Mon State.
Mon literature ids taught at 258 government schools in Mon State.
Translated by Thida Linn
Edited in English by Mark Inkey for BNI
