Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development

The Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development (Burmese: အမျိုးသားစီမံကိန်းနှင့် စီးပွားရေး ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု ဝန်ကြီးဌာန; abbreviated MNPED) administers Burma's economic development and national planning policies.

Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development
အမျိုးသားစီမံကိန်းနှင့် စီးပွားရေးဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှုဝန်ကြီးဌာန
Agency overview
DissolvedMarch 2016, 30 (30-03-2016)
Superseding agency
TypeMinistry
JurisdictionGovernment of Burma
HeadquartersNaypyidaw
Minister responsible
Deputy Ministers responsible
  • Le Le Thein
  • Hsan Lwin
Child agencies
Websitewww.mnped.gov.mm

MNPED is currently led by Kan Zaw, who was appointed by President Thein Sein on 7 September 2012.[1] Prior to his appointment, he had been serving as a deputy minister since March 2011.[2]

History

After 1948, the new government organized the Ministry of National Planning to rebuilt the country.

The ministry is composed with Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Religious Affairs and Union Culture and Ministry of Defence. In 1964, it became reserve as Ministry of National Planning. In those years, the ministry performed as National Planning Board, Economic Planning Board, Economic and Social Board.

On March 15, 1972, it was composed with Ministry of Finance and Taxas Ministry of Planning and Finance. On February 17, 1993, the Ministry of Planning and Finance was organized as the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development and Ministry of Finance and Tax.

On March 30, 2016, the president Htin Kyaw composed those two ministries as Ministry of Planning and Finance.[3]

See also

References
  1. Thein Sein (7 September 2012). "Appointment of Union Ministers Order No. 30/2012". President Office. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  2. "Cabinet". Alternative Asean Network on Burma. 25 November 2014. Archived from the original on 20 May 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  3. "အမျိုးသားစီမံကိန်းနှင့် စီးပွားရေး ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု ဝန်ကြီးဌာန (သမိုင်းနောက်ခံ)". Retrieved 30 March 2012.
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