A TEN-MAN national taskforce has been formed to help plan Dodoma and give the city the look and feel of a government seat, Premier Kassim Majaliwa revealed yesterday.
He said the team visited China last month and would soon visit Singapore to learn on the best practices that would help invigorate and develop the sleepy town while avoiding past mistakes when planning other major towns in the country.
Speaking during the Dodoma Regional Consultative Council (RCC) meeting here, he said the team is working in collaboration with the regional taskforce to ensure Dodoma becomes a well planned town in Tanzania and beyond.
“The decision to officially relocate to Dodoma is an opportunity to help transform the city into a world class metropolis,” he said, urging all those responsible to ensure past mistakes in cities like Dar es Salaam do not recur.
The team is taxed to see how to improve road infrastructure and social amenities, among other things.
“We do not want a repeat of Dar es Salaam where the commercial capital does not even have enough public gardens,” he said.
In the same carping vein, the premier reiterated the government’s resolve to relocate to Dodoma, telling residents in the region to prepare to benefit from the move which, however, comes with a myriad of challenges.
Water, electricity and telecommunications service providers were given up to the end of last year to upgrade and expand services to accommodate the expected population influx.
The Guardian has reliably learnt that about four years ago, a new master plan made by Saman Corporation, a South Korean engineering firm, was presented to the then president.
Details of the master plan have not been made public, but some speculators say the government would turn to international organisations for the implementation of the master plan.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA), the government agency in charge of overseeing the development of the region, estimates that it needs US$582.9 million for upgrading infrastructure to accommodate the shift.
Speaking with The Guardian yesterday, Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, Musa Uledi, who chairs the national taskforce, said his team, comprising two members from the private sector, two from universities and the rest from various government ministries visited China in December last year.
He said they will soon meet with other stakeholders and review the region’s master plan before working on a final draft with experts from China who will visit the country for that purpose.
“After this stage we will seek opinion from other experts, probably from the international community before implementing the master plan,” he said.
According to the PS, it is through that process the team will visit Singapore to learn more from them with the aim of improving the draft to make Dodoma a mega city.
In another development, minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Jennister Mhagama also stressed on the seriousness about relocating government headquarters to Dodoma.
She thus noted that all ministers, their deputies, permanent secretaries and departmental heads will be in Dodoma come February 28.
Speaking during the same meeting, Speaker of the National Assembly, Job Ndugai warned regional residents to be wary of those moving to the capital city and region in general as criminal elements would also want some piece of the action.
“My plea is that we should be careful and avoid accommodating people who are likely to tarnish the good image of our region,” he said.
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