Bunyangabu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bunyangabu district leaders have asked for additional funding for road maintenance. Since the financial year 2018/19, the district has been receiving 764 million shillings under the Uganda Road Fund-URF to work on the 641.33 kilometres of road. A portion of the money is allocated to …
Read More »Kitgum municipal officials call for increase of road fund budget
Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum Municipal Council officials have asked the government to increase the road fund budget to boost road maintenance and rehabilitation works. The municipality receives approximately 600 million shillings annually for road maintenance and rehabilitation from the government under the Uganda Road Fund-URF. Uganda Road Fund …
Read More »Kasese leaders seek additional funding for road maintenance
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kasese district local government wants additional funding for road maintenance. Currently, the district receives 1.2 Billion Shillings every financial year from the Uganda Road Fund. The Chief Administrative officer-CAO Asuman Amis Masereka says the funds are inadequate to maintain roads in the district that have been …
Read More »Japan gives gov’t UGX 1.2b for road maintenance
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Government has received a grant worth shillings 1.2 billion to implement the second phase of Do-nou project. Using the Do-nou technology, the three-year Community Road Empowerment (CORE) project is intended to empower communities to actively participate in self-sustaining developmental projects to maintain their roads …
Read More »KCCA secures new road maintenance equipment
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has procured new equipment for routine and periodical maintenance of city roads. The equipment purchased includes five jumper compactors, five asphalt pavement cutters, three pedestrian rollers, five tractors with trailers and a road marking machine which is still in transit. …
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