Some Chief and Participants of the Talensi District Town Hall Meeting
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schools out of the total number of 400 schools are to run the Double Track
System DTS in the Upper East Region.
The DTS was introduced as a stop gap
measure to be able to give education to about 180,000 more students who will be
going to school this year.
This is to make maximum use of the academic year
while government works at increasing infrastructure in the next few years to
accommodate all students.
It is therefore not true that all schools will run
DTS as speculated in some quarters. This was made known at a Town Hall Meeting
organized by the Talensi District assembly in partnership with the Ministry of
Local Government and Rural Development, held in Tongo.
As one of the
innovations of the ruling government, such meetings are held to serve as useful
platforms to engage with the citizens on the progress of policies and
initiatives for social and economic transformation.
Speaking to GBC Online, the
Acting Upper East Regional Minister, Frank Adongo Fuseni, said under the Change: An agenda for jobs;
creating prosperity and equal opportunity for all, an additional eight-thousand
8,000 teachers across the country will be recruited to match the increased
enrollment in the Senior High School SHS system, alongside with limited number
of non-teaching staff.
He further indicated that government’s strategy to tap
into the innovative, creative and diverse potentials of the youth in this
country to establish businesses as entrepreneurs.
For this reason, under the
President’s Business Support Programme of the National Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Progeamme NEIP, some seven thousand 7,000 youth have received
training on business start-ups and entrepreneurship.
Out of this number, the
President has awarded money up to hundred thousand Ghana cedis to GHC 100,000
to about One thousand Three hundred and fifty 1,350 young people with very
viable business plans for a start.
The
District Chief Executive for Talensi Dr. Christopher Boabil said, the District
Assembly is making great strides in the provision of school infrastructure and
other facilities in the district.
Whilst some have been completed and handed
over, others are at various stages of completion. The projects include the
construction of 12 bedroom teachers’ quarters at Datuko.
Construction of this
building he said was initiated by the past administration and stalled due to
nonpayment of the contractor.
Realizing the critical accommodation needs of
teachers in the district, some significant payments were made to aid the
contractor to complete the project.
Dr. Boabil indicated, the renovation of 2
No. 3 unit classroom blocks at Wuug, which suffered bad effects of rainstorm
since the latter parts of 2015 and did not receive attention, this led to theft
and breakdown of furniture until his assumption into office in May, 2017.
The
classroom block has been nicely renovated, furnished and fitted with
electricity and fans. On irrigation, the DCE stated that, Citing and
consultancy works has been done for the 1V1D to begin in 10 communities in the
district.
The communities include Yameriga, Gbani, Yinduri, Awaradoone,
Namoalug among others. Out of the 10, 4 communities has taken site possession
namely Winkogo, Kaare, Buugu/Sawaliga and Yameriga.
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by: GBC’s Emmanuel Akayeti
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