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– Region 5 RDC’s agenda
Regional Engineer Dhanpal Sukha says that the maintenance of schools in Region Five is a challenge, due to delinquent students who deface the facilities.
He, however, revealed that $124.3M has been allocated to maintain and repair schools and other facilities. According to Sukha, in the fiscal year 2017 the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) was allocated $3.6B to execute all of its programmes.
He disclosed that from this sum, $395.725M represents the capital expenditure.
The Regional Engineer said that the Region will see the construction of two new health centres, a nursery school at Perth and a concrete drain at the Amerindian Hostel; and there will be the rehabilitation of wards at the Mahaicony Hospital to the total of $135.825.
Hospitals as well as the RDC buildings, main office and living quarters among other facilities are also expected to be maintained and repaired.
“Myself and department would have been experiencing tremendous difficulties when it comes to the maintenance of school buildings. This is as a result of a lot of delinquent students that we will have at these facilities who would frequently damage electrical outlets, our sanitary facilities and so on. So there is always a constant need to maintain and rehabilitate these facilities,” Sukha pointed out.
Sukha added that $88M will be expended to upgrade seven roads in deplorable conditions and mud dams at Rosignol, Perth, Paradise, Mahaicony, Lovely Lass and other villages.
He said that the RDC is planning on spending $132M to repair and rehabilitate some 21 residential streets and farm-to- market access roads in Bath, Bushlot, Number 8 and some other villages.
The Mahaica, Mahaicony and Abrary (MMA), he said, will be warranted a sum of $25M under the capital drainage and irrigation programme for them to rehabilitate sluices at Grass Root, Perth and other villages and also the rehabilitation of channels at Cottage, Planters Hall and another village.
For the maintenance of drainage and irrigation for 2017, the RDC was allocated $90M.
“It is expected that the monies be used to continue our drainage and irrigation programme across the region so that we can better prepare all communities to alleviate the problem of flooding that we encountered in 2016 during the May/June heavy rain fall,” Sukha said.
“Under our capital Agriculture development, we were allocated the sum of $52M. This sum is expected to be used for the construction of a tarmac at the Abary Sluice area to facilitate the fishermen and the persons going to purchase fish at that location.”
He said that it is also expected that a bridge at Now or Never will be repaired. Sukha said that rehabilitation of roads, as well as extensions, will be done in villages like Good Faith, Recess and Number Eight.
“For capital bridges we were awarded a sum of $19.3M which will be utilized for the construction and rehabilitation of bridges at Hopetown, Union, Zes Kinderen and Bushlot. Under our recurrent maintenance of bridges, it is expected that some 10 residential farm-to-market access bridges be maintained and repaired at Number 30, Number Eight, Bath, Number Two etc. at a sum of $24.45M.”
The region was allocated $59.245M in recurrent maintenance of other infrastructure, which Sukha outlined will be utilized to maintain sluices, fences, compounds and sanitary facilities at all health centres and schools.
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