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Dodoma THE government will engage Private and Public Partnerships (PPP) to implement nine major infrastructure projects in the country.
A Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (Policy, Coordination and Parliamentary Affairs), William Lukuvi, who is Chief Whip in the National Assembly, said that by 2012 at least nine projects have been approved ready to be implemented under PPP.
He said the partnerships are expected to help the country reduce reliance on loans, saying most of the projects are in the construction and transport sectors.
He named the projects as Dar es Salaam - Chalinze super highway (Road Toll), Arusha-Moshi (Road Toll) Mbegani Port project in Bagamoyo, Mwambani Port project in Tanga, Kisarawe Cargo Freight Station, expansion of Mtwara Port, improving Kilwa Port, expansion of Kasanga and Kigoma ports.
He said the government has taken the initiative to form a special coordination department under the Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) and finance department under the arms of the ministry of finance to oversee implementation.
Moreover, he said, the government has already appointed 60 Desk Officers from ministries and other government institutions, who have been provided with special training to build their capacity for effective implementations of the projects.
Mr Lukuvi said under the PPP Act investors are expected to be invited after the relevant authorities in the government were done with such procedures as conducting feasibility study of the projects and floating of tenders.
"We're still in the process of carrying out a feasibility study of these projects," he said. He was responding to legislator Hamad Rashid Mohamed (Wawi - CUF), who wanted to know the number of projects under PPP that had been approved up to 2012.
He also wanted to know the status of their implementations and the amount of money spent on the projects
allAfrica.com: Tanzania: Major Road, Port Projects Underway
A Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (Policy, Coordination and Parliamentary Affairs), William Lukuvi, who is Chief Whip in the National Assembly, said that by 2012 at least nine projects have been approved ready to be implemented under PPP.
He said the partnerships are expected to help the country reduce reliance on loans, saying most of the projects are in the construction and transport sectors.
He named the projects as Dar es Salaam - Chalinze super highway (Road Toll), Arusha-Moshi (Road Toll) Mbegani Port project in Bagamoyo, Mwambani Port project in Tanga, Kisarawe Cargo Freight Station, expansion of Mtwara Port, improving Kilwa Port, expansion of Kasanga and Kigoma ports.
He said the government has taken the initiative to form a special coordination department under the Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) and finance department under the arms of the ministry of finance to oversee implementation.
Moreover, he said, the government has already appointed 60 Desk Officers from ministries and other government institutions, who have been provided with special training to build their capacity for effective implementations of the projects.
Mr Lukuvi said under the PPP Act investors are expected to be invited after the relevant authorities in the government were done with such procedures as conducting feasibility study of the projects and floating of tenders.
"We're still in the process of carrying out a feasibility study of these projects," he said. He was responding to legislator Hamad Rashid Mohamed (Wawi - CUF), who wanted to know the number of projects under PPP that had been approved up to 2012.
He also wanted to know the status of their implementations and the amount of money spent on the projects
allAfrica.com: Tanzania: Major Road, Port Projects Underway
