WNB govt gives K200,000 for road

THE West New Britain provincial government plans to work closely with the Department of Works in improving infrastructure in the province.
It has allocated K200,000 to continue the road rehabilitation and construction in the Gloucester and Bali-Vitu LLG areas.
Isidore Teli, the officer in charge of technical works and projects, said government machineries were on the sites and rehabilitation work on the two road programmes had been in progress for the past few months.
Teli said the K200,000 would subsidise resources needed for the work while awaiting the K1 million to be released under the 2012 budget.
A total of K400,000 is for the road works around the Bali and Vitu Islands and K600,000 is for the Gloucester roads.
The amount is part of the K7 million supplementary budget approved last year.
WNB provincial administrator Steven Raphael said the working partnership had been in existence over the years.
Raphael said the arrangement came after the provincial government revisited the public agencies partnership agreement signed between the two parties in 2010.
Acting provincial works manager Penias Paison  said they were glad that the cooperation between the province and department was back on track.
Other important road rehabilitation programmes include the Hoskins-Lavege road which was allocated K1,200,000 and the Ubai-Amio road for which a K1 million counter funding has been allocated in the budget.