 Dagon boasted both the Methodist English High School, one of the top English-language medium schools and the nationalist Burmese language medium high school, Myoma High School.In the 1950s, the Burmese government cleared the squatters in the southern part of the township, and built the Minmanaing Housing Project for senior civil servants.Dagon gained another prominent pagoda in the 1980s, when Gen. Ne Win commissioned the Maha Wizaya Pagoda.