Government to earmark solidarity fund to scale up underserved municipalities’ budget

During its council’s meeting scheduled for tomorrow in Algiers, the government is expected to examine a set of outstanding issues with on focus one related to the rejuvenation of those deficit-stricken municipalities in the four corners of the country through a set of remedial measures and incentives.

The relevant report will be exhaustively expounded by the minister of the interior and local assemblies, Dahou Ould Kablia who will apprise on the occasion the government of the current financial and other woes gripping certain underprivileged municipalities of the country.

In so doing, the government is set to adopt a number of measures likely to shore up the meager budgets of these needy municipalities through a ministerial decree providing for the allotment of a special solidarity fund for the benefit of each of them.

This special government fund with no interest fees accrued, coupled with a revised action plan involving new measures to help collect the various taxes deriving from the manifold services provided by these targeted municipalities, will hopefully drive them “out of the red” at the earliest possible time.

The well-meaning move is part of the authorities’ overall plan designed to bolster the financial assets of certain long-neglected municipalities with a view to upgrading their efficiency and reliability at the daily service of the citizens across the national territory.

On the meeting’s agenda, the council of government to be chaired by Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal will also tackle the feasibility studies for the projected achievement soon of tramway lines in the eastern provinces of Annaba and Sétif as well as those pertaining to the planned extension of the current tramway line in the city of Constantine, also in the east of the country.