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decision is made. There is another point I would.
like to make Six and that concerns the imp- rovement of the fringe areas to new towns, and the serious inadequacy of infrastructure in the rural areas. In the last Budget, debate, or
Father in the last Budget, the Government had spent over $20 million on certain improvement programmes in this regard, but as far as I understand the progress of such programmes are far from/satisfactory and have not achieved
their originally intended purpose.
being
In view of the fact that the fringe areas of
are new urban towns, and the rural areas is very extensive wide, it is complicated enough to come up with an order of priority to improve the several hundred villages involved. Also, the process
result may involve resumption of private land and
and interests of land owningliþ beiing the rights of people who own land may se
the land resumption process is a very affected all these factors make the issue
the situation becomes uotel since Sue and more complex. To make things
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worse, very
often Government servants involved in the
complicated
process belong to different departments, and
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each departments, has its own order of priorities
In additim to that, and standards, that plus-a lack of co-oration amongst various departments leacks to has often given rise to delays, and problems, that are unforeseen. I think that in order to
solve these problems, the Government should increase the fundings for such projects, and it should actually set up a rural development committee to oversee the progress of such
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improvement projects. The Committee should ensure that there is no clash with the projects that are proposed by the Regional Council or the pistrict Boards and in any case the
its scose development committee should only limit itself to rural roads, to drainage facilities and
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