YANGON, July 8 (Xinhua) -- The Myanmar authorities will build schools with steel structure to replace those in the Yangon municipal area destroyed during a cyclone storm in early May, a local weekly reported Tuesday.

    A total of 15 schools are covered by the plan of building such schools with domestic steel structure, the Pyi Myanmar said, quoting the Yangon City Development Committee.

    Meanwhile, all schools in Myanmar's cyclone-hit areas in the Ayeyawaddy delta have been reopened update for the 2008-09 academic year, which started in June.

    These schools were upgraded to basic education primary ones under the sponsorship of the state with no self-reliant affiliated primary schools in the division remained, reports said.

    The Myanmar education authorities is also providing assistance to students who lost their parents in the severe cyclone to enable them to continue pursuing education.

    Besides, the government is also establishing orphanages in Pyarpon and Labutta in the division for the health care and education.

    Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states on May 2 and 3. of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructural damage.

    The storm killed 84,537 people, leaving 53,836 missing and 19,359 injured according to the latest official death toll.