Concerns over misapplication of Special Support Grants by provincial governMen’s and districts in host of mining towns were raised in a recent MOA meeting in Kokopo East New Britain.
Mining Programme Planner for the Department of National Planning and Monitoring, Mark Goiye, said the department realizes that government officials responsible for these funds are not familiar with the set guidelines of disbursement.
“A lot of our Provincial Administrations, due to the changes of the administrations and workers in the government are uneducated on the special Support Grants”, said Mr Goiye in an interview.
That is why the National Planning’s role is to make sure that they know what the guidelines are and what they are supposed to do to implement these projects under the Special Support Grants, he continued.
This year there has been a sum of over fifty million kina has been allocated for the mining provinces all over the country.
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