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MiDA to build over 400 new schools in
districts
Karaga, (N/R), July 10, Ghanadot/GNA- The Millennium
Development Authority (MiDA) would build over 400 new
schools and also provide other social services to modernise
and improve upon agricultural productivity in each of the 23
beneficiary districts selected for the implementation of the
project in the country.
The project would also include the provision of irrigation
facilities, construction of dams, credit for the production,
transportation, storage, processing and other related value
chain activities in the selected districts across the
country.
Mr. Martin Eson-Benjamin, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
MiDA announced this when he inaugurated the Karaga District
Advisory Committee (DAC) of the MiDA at Karaga.
The Committee is made up of representatives of farmers’
organisations, the private sector, civil society, women’s
associations, anti-corruption associations and environmental
and social organisations.
The Committee would give advice and provide inputs to MiDA
as to the peculiar problems in their communities to regulate
the implementation of the projects.
Mr. Benjamin said with the inauguration of the committee,
MiDA was now into full scale implementation of all the
compact projects.
He expressed the hope that the committee members would take
their appointments with excitement and work hard to assist
MiDA to deliver effectively in the district, adding that the
committee was a collaborative relationship and must
therefore facilitate progress of work.
“You must not be one which will add a layer of bureaucracy
or become another bottleneck in our implementation process,”
he said.
Mr. Baba Wahab, Karaga District Chief Executive, (DCE)
stressed the need to address the traditional farming
practices which had an adverse effect on agricultural
production and now adopt appropriate techniques of reducing
poverty through agricultural transformation.
He said prior to the inauguration of the DAC twelve
personnel of the Assembly had benefited from an orientation
training to enable them to disseminate the objectives and
implementation procedure of MiDA in the Communities.
He said 39 Farmer Based Organisations (FBOs) had been formed
and four small and medium scale enterprises had also been
identified in the district and were ready to effectively
utilise any support given them by MiDA.
GNA
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