Each of 6000 wards to get K10,000

THE Government has allocated K60 million in the 2018 national Budget for developments in wards.
Provincial and Local Level Government Affairs Secretary Dickson Guina said K10,000 was allocated to each of the 6000 wards for development projects.
“The only way for the country to be developed is for development to take place at the village level,” he said.
Guina said during the launching of the department’s 2018-2022 corporate plan in Port Moresby that the government had made the right decision to allocate the funding.
“Unless we change our villages, we will never change this country. This is what this department is doing,” he said.
Guina said the government policies had changed to focus on the districts.
Meanwhile, Inter-Governmental Relations Minister Kevin Isifu has thanked the Australian government for supporting the preparation of the plan.
“I expect the other government agencies to implement this plan. Let us now change to frontline services delivery. We must see development in our villages,” he said.