Bauchi Pays N636m as Counterpart Fund for SDGs Projects

As a feature of push to enhance the living condition and prosperity of the citizenry, the Bauchi State Government has paid N636,000,000,000 as partner asset for the usage of various tasks profited under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the State.

The state Director General, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Hajiya Fatima Ahmed Halilu who unveiled this to newsmen in her office yesterday while inspecting 2015 exercises of the SDGs ventures in the state clarified that a portion of the activities under development incorporate 19 units of Primary Health Clinics(PHCs),19 units of staff Accommodation and redesign of one PHC, all spread over the 20 Local Government Areas(LGAs) of the state.

Bauchi Pays N636m as Counterpart Fund for SDGs Projects

Others are Drilling and Installation of 33 units of Solar Powered Boreholes, Drilling and Installation of 57 units of Hand Pump Fitted Boreholes, development of 19 units of VIP Toilets, buy of six Ambulances and in addition supply of Medical Equipment for the 19 Primary Health Centers, among others.

As per her, the state government paid a money partner commitment of the total of N6million and consequent installment of equivalent sum by office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs, (OSSAP) for the usage of the 2015 MDGs – CGS state track ventures in the zones of wellbeing, water, and sanitation.

She clarified that the Bauchi Sate Governor, Mohammed Abubakar had allowed endorsement for the honor of agreements in pair with the arrangements of the workplace of the Senior Special Assistant to the president on SDGs (OSSAP).

She promote said Bauchi state government additionally paid N36million partner reserve for the take-off of and usage of world Bank Assisted Youth Empowerment and Social Support Operation (YESSO) ‎through the Conditional Cash Transfer CCT segment, which was going to be executed under the world Bank program.

The DG called attention to that the state was among the 10 states chose to profit by usage of the National Cash Transfer of the Federal government under the workplace of the Vice President office as palliative measures to most defenseless in the general public.

Fatima clarified that the Scheme under the Conditional Grants plan was right now going ahead in eight LGAs of Zaki, Misau, Dambam, Gamawa, Warji , Jam female horse, Dass, and Tafawa Balewa with 10 recipients each from the LGAs and put on N18, 000 month to month remittance for the time of 2 years.

As indicated by her, The Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs), also called the Global Goals, was based on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight against destitution focuses on that the world focused on accomplishing by 2015. The MDGs, received in 2000, went for a variety of issues that included slicing neediness, hunger, illness, sexual orientation disparity, and access to water and sanitation.

Representatives look for restoration of benefits plan

Rundown: Tribune News ServiceBathinda, May 28Employees of different government offices today got together under the pennant of the 'Purani Pension Bahaal Karo Sangharsh Committee' and requested the recovery of the benefits plan. They blamed the Central Government for ceasing the benefits plan for those enlisted after 2004, in this manner abandoning them outside the domain of social welfare. Requesting restoration of the annuity conspire, the nonconformists expressed that on account of not being augmented the most critical occupation advantage, the Central Government had left the workers face penury in their seniority. The nonconformists included representatives of the Education, Health, Water Supply, Revenue, Forest, Food and Supply and different offices. Amid the dissent, the representatives smoldered a likeness of the state government in the city.

Bathinda, May 28 Employees of different government offices today got together under the pennant of the 'Purani Pension Bahaal Karo Sangharsh Committee' and requested the recovery of the annuity plan. Amid the challenge, the representatives smoldered a model of the state government in the city. The dissenters included workers of the Education, Health, Water Supply, Revenue, Forest, Food and Supply and different offices.

The dissidents initially collected at the Teachers' Home and later took out a dissent walk in the city till the District Administrative Complex where they raised mottos against the legislature and smoldered its likeness. They blamed the Central Government for halting the annuity plan for those enlisted after 2004, in this way abandoning them outside the domain of social welfare. Requesting recovery of the annuity plot, the dissenters expressed that as a result of not being amplified the most imperative occupation advantage, the Central Government had left the representatives face penury in their maturity..

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Source : Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi