Presenting the budget before council yesterday the mayor kijura town council William Manyindo Nayera said that shillings 39,412,350 will be locally raised while Uganda shillings 343,787,503 will be got from the central government transfers.

The mayor disclosed that unlike the previous financial year, the town council will not have start up fund and the graduated tax compensation which he says will greatly impact on the town council operations.

He explained that the 2011/2012 budget has introduced a monthly facilitation allowance for the town council speaker and deputy mayor of shillings 40,000 and 30,000 respectively because of their day today supplementary activities to the office of the mayor.

The budget also set aside 3 million shilling for gazzeting and grading creating a taxi park and boda boda stages that will thereafter be sources of local revenue.

By Rogers Sunday

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Manyindo says that through the government program of community driven development, more people have been mobilized and encouraged on how to form SACCOs to access easy credit for their income generating activities.

Kijura town council became operation in July last year after it was curved from Hakibale Sub County.

Manyindo explains that 400 farmers benefited from the NAADS phase two program of food security and that a bigger number of farmers are to benefit after the harvest.

The Mayor adds that the town council prioritized the opening of feeder roads to enable farmers easily access markets citing Kyajumba-Nsorro road, Kamusanga-Mubali road and Nsorro-Katego road.

Manyindo says that with the help of an American company AYA, the town council has finished the construction of three wells to cab typhoid fever which had claimed a number of lives in the area.

By Sunday Rogers

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