Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs (Myanmar)
| အားကစားနှင့် လူငယ်ရေးရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာန | |
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| Type | Ministry |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Burma |
| Headquarters | Office No (31), Naypyidaw |
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| Deputy Minister responsible |
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| Website | mosya |
The Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs (
The Department of Sports and Physical Education, Department of Youth Affairs and their branches are under the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs. Other afflications are Myanmar National Olympic Council, National Olympic Committee and Sports Federations. The Union Minister must be the chairman of National Olympic Committee. The Ministry is also responsible for stadiums in Myanmar.[3]
History
From the early 20 Century to 1941, there are "Burma Athletic Association" in Yangon and "Upper Burma Athletic Association " in Mandalay for sports affairs. In 1936, an athlete, U Zaw Weit, and a coach,U Shein, competed in
On 26 November 1946, Burma organized "Burma Olympic Association" which was governed by General Aung San and Sir Hubert Rance as chairperson and Sir J A Maung Gyi and U Razak as president and vice-president. On 9 July 1947, they joined with International Olympic Committee and competed in the 1948 London Olympics as "Burma".
On 9 October 1950, the "National Fitness Council" was organized. The Council was composed with a chairman (
On 27 May 1964, the "Burma Sports and Physical Education Committee" was organized. The health minister served as chairman and the director general for SPEC Office served as secretary. In 1972, it was organized as "Sports and Physical Education Department" (DSPE) under the Ministry of Health. On 1 July 1993, it moved under the Ministry of Prime Minister Office.
On 18 December 1996, the government established the "Ministry of Sports" for the country's sports affairs. The DSPE was moved from Ministey of Prime Minister Office to Ministry of Sports. From 1996 to 2011, SPDC appointed Brigadier Generals of Tatmadaw as Minister of Sports. On March 30 2011, newly elected president Thein Sein appointed Tint Hsan, a businessman, as Union Minister for Sports.[4]
When Htin Kyaw became the president in March 2016, he reduced the number of ministries in his cabinet. He dissolved Ministry of Sports and moved the department of Sports and Physical Education to the Ministry of Health. But on 25 May 2016, the Ministry of Health was renamed as the Ministry of Health and Sports.[5][6] Prior to 2018, only the Director General of DSPE took the lead in sports sector.[7] In 2018, former badminton player, Mya Lay Sein, was appointed as deputy minister by Win Myint and acted more effectively on behalf of the Union Minister.
After the
List of ministers
Ministers (1996 - 2011)
| No | Name | Term start | Term end | Days | Head of state |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brigadier General Sein Win | 18 February 1996 | 28 October 1999 | 1348 | Senior General Than Shwe |
| 2 | Brigadier General Thura Aye Myint | 29 October 1999 | 30 March 2011 | 4170 |
Union ministers (2011 - incumbent)
| No | Name | Name of the ministry | Term start | Term end | Days | President |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Tint Hsan | Ministry of Sports | 30 March 2011 | 30 March 2016 | 1827 | Thein Sein |
| 4 | Dr Myint Htwe | Ministry of Health and Sports | 30 March 2016 | 1 February 2021 | 1769 | |
| 5 | Dr Thet Khaing Win | 1 February 2021 | 1 August 2021 | 181 | Myint Swe (acting) | |
| 6 | Min Thein Zan | Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs | 1 August 2021 | Incumbent | 1352 |
Deputy ministers
| No | Name | Name of the ministry | Term start | Term end | Days | Union Minister |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aye Myint Kyu | Ministry of Sports | 30 March 2011 | 6 September 2012 | 526 | Tint Hsan |
| 2 | Thaung Htike | 7 September 2012 | 30 March 2016 | 1300 | ||
| 3 | Zaw Win | 29 July 2013 | 30 March 2016 | 975 | ||
| 4 | Dr Mya Lay Sein | Ministry of Health and Sports | 2 July 2018 | 1 February 2021 | 945 | Dr Myint Htwe |
| 5 | Myo Hlaing | 7 February 2021 | Incumbent | 1533 | Dr Thet Khaing Win | |
| Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs | Min Thein Zan | |||||
| 6 | Dr Soe Win[11] | 19 August 2022 | 21 July 2023 | 336 | ||
| 7 | Zin Min Htet | 21 July 2023 | Incumbent | 633 |
Departments
- Union Minister Office
- Department of Sports and Physical Education
- Department of Youth Affairs
See also
References
- ^ a b "စစ်ကိုင်း၊ တနင်္သာရီနှင့် ဧရာဝတီ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ဥက္ကဋ္ဌများအား တာဝန်မှ အနားယူခွင့်ပြုခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်ထောင်စု ဝန်ကြီးဌာနအချို့ကို ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်း".
- ^ The Global New Light of Myanmar. MNA. 2 August 2021. p. 6. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "မြန်မာ့အားကစားသမိုင်းနှင့် ဝန်ကြီးဌာန သမိုင်းအကျဉ်း".
- ^ "Formation of the Union Government (1/2011)". President Office (in Burmese). 30 March 2011. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021.
- ^ "မြန်မာ့အားကစားသမိုင်း".
- ^ "Two ministries renamed". နိုင်ငံတော် သမ္မတရုံး. Archived from the original on 29 November 2016.
- ^ "ဝေသူဝေ ကြွေသူကြွေခဲ့သည့် ၂၀၁၇ မြန်မာ့အားကစား".
- ^ "Myanmar's Health Minister Resigns After Military Takeover". The Irrawaddy. 1 February 2021.
- ^ "ဒုတိယဝန်ကြီး ၂၄ ဦးအား တာဝန်မှရပ်စဲကြောင်း တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်ရုံး ထုတ်ပြန်".
- ^ "Tatmadaw names new govt officials". The Myanmar Times. 1 February 2021.
- ^ "အားကစားနှင့်လူငယ်ရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ဒုတိယဝန်ကြီးအဖြစ်ခန့်အပ်".
