DODOMA Regional Commissioner (RC), Dr Binilith Mahenge has directed executives in the region to list all investment opportunities available in the area, for regional authorities to promote them to the public.
Dr Mahenge issued the directive here
during a recent Regional Consultative Council (RCC) meeting, pointing
out that the government’s decision to shift to the Central Zone region
had created a number of opportunities.
“The executive should now undertake the
role to mobilize groups of people, largely women and youngsters to grab
business opportunities,” the RC said while opening the RCC meeting.
The meeting brought together executives
and Members of Parliament in the region to deliberate on issues
pertaining to development particularly projects and regional budget. Dr
Mahenge further ordered regional executives to identify likely business
opportunities in the construction of Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) and
Hoima-Tanga Oil Pipeline in order to prepare youth and women to grab
them.
“While youth will provide the projects
with workforce, women can benefit from selling food to the labourers in
the projects,” he observed. The Hoima-Tanga Pipeline, which will pass
through Kondoa District, is set to create a number opportunities
including employment and business to residents of Dodoma.
Dr Mahenge informed the RCC meeting that
every council earmarks ten percent of the budget to empower youth and
women economically and that the executives can help the groups to
develop business proposals in connection to the ongoing development
projects.
He explained that the special programme
to empower women and youth was introduced by the government to enable
the groups engage income generating activities, which would also create
employment to members of the public.
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