Dodoma. The government is drafting a new master
plan for 30 regions, deputy minister of Lands, Housing and Human
settlements Development Angelina Mabula told the Parliament yesterday.
She
was responding to Special Seats MP Upendo Peneza (Chadema), who wanted
to know what the government was doing to improve human settlements in
various parts of the country.
In her basic question, Ms
Peneza noted that poor settlements in big cities often caused disease
outbreaks, so it was time for the government to come up with a feasible
solution to the recurring problem.
For her part,
Special Seats MP Amina Makillagi (CCM) also wanted to know, when the
government would survey all land to minimise frequent land disputes
between farmers and pastoralists in many parts in the country.
Responding,
the deputy minister said according to a special report in 2014 by the
Tanzania Cities Network, at least 67 per cent of all big cities in the
country had been poorly developed.
To address the
situation, Ms Mabula said the government through the ministry was
preparing a national–wide programme of planning, surveying and
formalising all land in the country.
“The 2015-2025 programme, among other things, aims at minimising poor human settlements throughout the country,” she said.
She added that the country-wide programme would involve 181 councils in all regions and would be done under two phases.
“The
first phase of the programme has already started in three districts of
Kilombero, Malinyi and Ulanga in Morogoro Region under the supervision
of the Land Tenure Programme. We have decided to start the programme in
these tree districts because they are frequent land disputes,” she told
the Parliament.
Moreover, the deputy minister unveiled
that her ministry in cooperation with the private sector was finalising
to develop a comprehensive plan for improving human settlements in
Arusha, Mwanza, Tabora, Mtwara, Kibaha, Korogwe and Songea.
