By Godfrey Sunwar, Jos
A public project intervention organ, the Plateau State Community and Social Development Agency (PLCSDA), has completed 155 functional projects spread across the state since its establishment four years ago.
General Manager of the Agency, Dauda Dinju, who disclosed this in Jos, said 70 projects were ongoing while 96 had been marked for implementation, identifying project areas already implemented as including road rehabilitation, electricity supply, school and health centers, buildings, borehole drilling, and market construction.
Dinju, who delivered the welcome address at a Sensitization Workshop on Project Impact Assessment and Evaluation of Projects Executed in the State from 2009 to date, said each of the 17 local government areas of Plateau State had benefited from the projects and that his agency would continue to strengthen rural infrastructure.
Also speaking on the occasion, the member representing Kanke LGA in the Plateau State House of Assembly, Hon Timothy Golu, said he had benefited personally from projects executed by the agency, as he had gotten the agency to implement a 22-kilometer road rehabilitation, drilling of 10 boreholes, and supply of electricity to various communities in his constituency.
Golu, who is the Chief Whip of the state House of Assembly, said he and his colleagues were working to make the state government provide more funding for the agency to empower it to execute more projects across the state.
Communities who have identified a project that is beyond their capacity are expected to contribute 10% of the cost of the project, then the Plateau State Community and Social Development Agency will complete the 90% for the execution of the project.
© dARA for Royal Times of Nigeria Newspaper, 2013. |
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