The Interim Administration of the National Unity Government (NUG) is reportedly operating about 95 percent in Pale Township, Sagaing Region.
According to the Pale Township’s Public Administration, the military can dominate only the Pale town, Kandauk Police Station, Inma Hti village of Pyu Saw Htee, and Ziphyu Kone village of Pyu Saw Htee, but the rest of the area are dominated by the Local Defense Forces, Public Administration, People’s Defense Forces and People’s Security Forces, and the NUG’s administration activities can be carried out actively in these areas.
“It is dominated by the NUG. PDF is also an organization under the NUG’s Ministry of Defense. PDF is not the only one doing the revolution here. It includes all sectors and all departments. All are doing the revolution. On the ground, the public administration mechanism appeared first,” a member of Pale Township’s Public Administration told MPA.
The Pale Township’s Public Administration Mechanism is operating in balance the activities of administration, rule of law, education, health, agriculture and regional development in Pale Township, and the Pale Township’s People’s Defense Force is conducting the defense operations up to village tracts and township level from village and ward level and they are fighting together with the other PDFs under the NUG’s Ministry of Defense.
“We have the NUG’s administration mechanism in Kandauk which is dominated by the military junta. Most of the people are living under our public administration mechanism,” he added.
“If any problem occurs in the communities of wards and villages in Pale Township, the people’s defense force, public administration, people’s defense force of the ward and village come to solve the problem. If the problem needs to be solved at the township level, the township officials come to solve it,” a local man from Pale Township said.
“The problem is solved by the public administration, people’s defense force and people’s security force in face-to-face way, and if it cannot be solved, it will be handed over to township level,” he added.
MPA investigated that along with strengthening of the NUG’s Public Administration in Pale Township, the People’s Defense Forces have also become stronger in the Township.