THE Luanshya Municipal Council (LMC) has launched a four-year strategic plan that it intends to use as a tool for economic transform in the town.
Out-going Luanshya Mayor Nathan Chanda said the “Luanshya District Strategic Plan 2014-2018”, is a catalyst that local authority will use for the town to attain sustainable economic transformation.
Mr Chanda said this on Monday during the official launch of the strategic plan at the Civic Centre in Luanshya.
“The strategic plan that runs from 2014 to 2018, is a development manifesto that the local authority would use to attain sustainable economic transformation for the town of Luanshya and its residents,” he said.
Mr Chanda said the strategic plan encompasses goals and objectives that when successfully implemented, would improve the livelihood of residents in all the 28 Wards of Luanshya constituency.
He said the policy highlights the necessary strategies required to win the battle against high unemployment and poverty levels.
“This plan is a tool that will transform the livelihood of Luanshya residents, young and old and the future generations,” he said.
And gracing the official launch of the strategic plan, Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili urged the local authority to ensure that residents participate in the implementation of the development plan.
Mr Kambwili who is also Youth and Sport Minister said the strategicplan would showcase direction of implementing decisions on allocating resources needed to pursue the new development agenda for Luanshya.
“It is important to stress that this strategic plan belongs to residents of Luanshya who must be seen to participate in its implementation,” Mr Kambwili said.
The strategic plan is expected to gobble-up K93 million during its implementation stage.
Why 4 years BUFFOON Kambwili why not 10 year?
Jay Jay – At town or district level a 4-year plan is sufficient as long as it is assesed periodically. This is very progressive and we should appluad all involved. The electorate will now be in a position to benchmark progress againast this document. I wish all towns could emulate this
strategies again.no action.we want pensionable jobs not strategies.
What is in the plan? I have not read of what will be achieved in the next 4 yrs. Hope it is not just talk no action.
What’s the plan? This is very poor journalism. We need to have credits on who wrote the article so we can know which journalist are poor at reporting.
Is there an ecopy I can read? I hope it won’t be classified and hidden away like most Zambian affairs…
Why do we have a Roan MP officiating at a Luanshya event? Where is the Luanshya MP?
i wonder who is in charge of the kabwe council , the street vendors have taken over the whole town, kabwe is the dirtiest town in zambia , so sad to see our town looking so dirty.
Thats a very way to go.
But the best would have been following the SNDP approach and let
your SP go up to 2016 to enable continuity if it so happened that there
was change of government. it is better to be planning within the election
cycle so that out plans don”t get rendered useless if the mandate of governments
change. but big up to the District Planning Unit for the Job well done.