Mwanza's Misungwi District Council approves 38bn/- budget for 2015/16

By: Unknown on 12:54 AM

Mariamu Lugayila, Misungwi District Commissioner

Misungwi District Council in Mwanza has approved their budget estimates of 38.1bn/- for implementation of various development projects and recurrent expenditures for the 2015/2016 financial year.

 

Out of the total budget, 27.8bn/- is for recurrent expenditure while6.1bn/- goes to fund implementation of various priority development projects in the district.

 

Presenting the draft budget estimates to the Full Council earlier this week, the District Council Planning Officer Pastory Mukaruka said improvement of road infrastructure and improvement of primary education would be given top priority in the financial year that commences in July.

He said the improvement in the primary education would see pass rates increasing from the current 63 to 80 per cent. 

 

Mukaruka said the money for development projects would be allocated according to areas of priority with a view of boosting the economies of the respective areas as well as improving social services there.

 

“The budget also aims at reducing poverty in the district by improving people’s lives and enhancing good governance and responsibility,” he said.

“We need to increase sources of revenue so that we collect more for the development of our district,” he went on to say.

 

“We as councilors must effectively supervise development projects implemented in our areas in order to ensure they are up to standard,” he said.

 

Earlier, Misungwi District Commissioner Mariamu Lugayila lashed out at some of the councilors who he accused of refusing to work with Village Executive Officers and even going to the extent of firing them instead of presenting their cases to the appointing authority.

 

She called on the councilors to follow set operation procedures whenever there are discrepancies with the Village Executive Officers instead of usurping the powers of the appointing authority.