The Danu Self-Administered Zone (Burmese: ဓနု ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသ [dənṵ kòbàɪɰ̃ ʔoʊʔtɕʰoʊʔ kʰwɪ̰ɰ̃ja̰ dèθa̰]), as stipulated by the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar, is a self-administered zone consisting of two townships in Shan State.[3] The zone is self-administered by the Danu people. Its official name was announced by decree on 20 August 2010.[4]
Danu Self-Administered Zone
ဓနုကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ | |
|---|---|
 Headquarters of the Leading Body | |
 Flag | |
 Location in Shan State | |
| Country |  Myanmar |
| State | Shan State |
| No. of Townships | 2 |
| Capital | Pindaya |
| Government | |
| • Chairperson of the Leading Body | Arkar Lin [1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,610.6 km2 (1,394.1 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 161,835 |
| Demonym | Danu |
| Time zone | UTC+6.30 (MMT) |
Government and politics
editThe Danu Self-Administered Zone is administered by a Leading Body, which consists of at least ten members and includes Shan State Hluttaw (Assembly) members elected from the Zone and members nominated by the Burmese Armed Forces. The Leading Body performs both executive and legislative functions and is led by a Chairperson, currently Arkar Lin. The Leading Body has competence in ten areas of policy, including urban and rural development, road construction and maintenance, and public health.[5]
Administrative divisions
editThe zone is divided into two townships:
Both townships are administratively part of the Taunggyi District.
References
edit- ^ "Home | Ministry of Information".
- ^ Shan State. The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census. Vol. 3-M. Naypyitaw: Ministry of Immigration and Population. May 2015. p. 16.
- ^ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ (၂၀၀၈ ခုနှစ်) (in Burmese). 2008. Archived from the original on 2015-11-19.
- ^ "တိုင်းခုနစ်တိုင်းကို တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများအဖြစ် လည်းကောင်း၊ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ တိုင်းနှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသများ ရုံးစိုက်ရာ မြို့များကို လည်းကောင်း ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေတွင် ခရိုင်နှင့်မြို့နယ်များကို လည်းကောင်း သတ်မှတ်ကြေညာ". Weekly Eleven News (in Burmese). 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
- ^ "Nagaland: A frontier, for now". 9 April 2019.