(Tanzania Building Agency (TBA has plans to put up a new $111 million government smart village in the north -east of the country, Photo By Kenan Kalagho) This is in a government bid to provide public servants with basic services like housing.
The newly planned government smart buildings would comprise of the ministries allowing the public to have access to various government offices and also housing structures to accommodate government civil servants.
Speaking in Dar es Salaam last week the Chief Executive Officer of Tanzania Building Agency Elius Mwakalinga said the government was prepared to spend some Tsh180 billion ($111 million) in the next financial year for the proposed project.
According to TBA Programme Manager, Edwin Nnunduma, the implementation of the 10,000 public servants housing units is also in the pipeline and would commence in the next financial year.
He said each house would cost some Tsh25 million ($15,446) with the first phase expected to commence in 12 regions of Tanzania including Dar es Salaam, Geita and Njombe saying the houses to be built would have with them different designs.
Mwakalinga said that Dodoma as the proposed capital was lacking basic things like housing and offices and thus making it hard for government offices to conducts their activities in the said capital.
“The government smart village would be part of government plans to transfer the capital to Dodoma,” Mwakalinga said.
He said the area where the project will be implemented has already been identified”
The implementation of the housing units and government ministries offices is part of Tanzania government requirements to meet the increasing demands of the housing sector to its civil servants by 2015 that would to the greater extent reduce the housing deficit to public servants in the country.
Nnunduma said the implementation of the housing project would be carried in four phases and would commence this financial year.
He said the first phase of the project is expected to see the construction of 2,500 houses being constructed in various regions of the country including government offices and that these houses would be built with special specials construction technologies.
“These houses would be acquired through loans to all the public servants in the lower, middle and senior civil servants” Nnunduma said.
Dar es Salaam is expected to have 1,400 houses, Njombe with 50 houses while Geita will see the erection of 150 houses and the rest houses would be constructed in Iringa, Lindi, Mtwara, Mbeya, Mpanda and Arusha Regions. The project is expected to be implemented before the end of 2015.
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