Govt to Hire 30,000 Civil Servants by 2017, Allocates K 530 Million for 2016 Elections

The Zambian Government is targeting to employ 30,000 public service workers by 2017 mainly in the key sectors of health and education.

This is contained in the 2014-2016 Medium Term Expenditure Framework released in Lusaka yesterday by Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba.

Government is also planning to rationalize public expenditure by ensuring that pre-paid billing systems are installed in all Government institutions for utilities such as electricity, water and telephone charges.

Government is further proposing to spend K 864.6 million for elections and voter registration over the three year period and K 1.9 billion for grants to Local Councils which includes allocations to the Local Government Equalisation Fund which will be established in 2015.

It also targets to set aside over K 810,321,330 in 2016 as allocation to the Electoral Commission of Zambia of which K 530,000 will go towards hosting of by elections and the 2016 general elections.

On road infrastructure development, Government is planning to spend K 12.7 billion over the medium term to accelerate road programmes under the Link Zambia 8,000 programmes as well as the Pave 2,000 programme.

Government also plans to spend K 140 million on the Public Service Microfinance Company over the same period while K 328.8 million has been set aside in 2015 for the recapitalization of State Owned Enterprises.

The state also proposes to spend K 382.0 million in 2015, K 354.1 million in 2016 and 2017 to reduce arrears owed to suppliers of goods and services.

Posted by Editor on August 23, 2014. Filed under LATEST NEWS. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry