{"id":16442,"date":"2017-10-19T19:29:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T19:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16442"},"modified":"2017-10-20T18:58:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T18:58:28","slug":"thirteen13-highlights-of-2018-delta-state-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16442","title":{"rendered":"THIRTEEN(13) HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018 DELTA STATE GOV. OKOWA&#8217;S BUDGET SPEECH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1)Two thousand three hundred and twenty four (2,324) unemployed youths including fifty one (51) Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) trained and established in enterprises of their choice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2) About 4,000 youths trained in vocational centres across the State<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3) Under the State Employment and Expenditure For Results (SEEFOR) project to which the State has contributed N600m as counterpart fund, 5,312 youths were employed and trained on building their self-esteem, savings culture and entrepreneurship to sustain their livelihood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4) About 42,000 private sector jobs created by programmes and projects of the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">5) Under the Delta State Micro-credit Scheme, eight hundred and thirty-five million, seven hundred thousand naira (N835,700,000) has been disbursed to five hundred and ninety-three (593) cooperative societies, comprising six thousand two hundred and fifty-two (6,252) beneficiaries in the twenty-five (25) Local Government Areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">6) Intervention in the Technical and Vocational Education and Agricultural Training (TVEAT) institutions, resulted increase in student enrolment by 22% while pass rate in Technical Subjects has improved by 59%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">7)\u00a0Within the same period, the state government constructed a total of 560 classrooms and renovated another 599.\u00a0 A total of 59,267 classroom furniture and 7,884 teachers\u2019 furniture were provided<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=14730&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">8) A total of 697.36 km roads and 208km of drains have been embarked upon. Of this figure, 276.63 km roads are in the rural areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">9)\u00a0Under SEEFOR\u2019s Community Driven Development (CDD) social sub-component, over 300,000 Deltans in 42 communities now have access to socio-economic services such as electricity extension, water, skill acquisition centres, and multipurpose town halls. On the CDD Economic stream being implemented by Fadama III, over 199 subprojects have been completed in 20 communities and 15 rural infrastructure sub-projects (block of market stalls, boats, boreholes etc). To date, about 26,000 persons have access to socio-economic services in these rural communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10) With just N7, 000 as premium, the Delta State health insurance scheme is already providing pre-paid health services to 112,169 registered people. The scheme is currently functional in 63 secondary healthcare centres, while 97 primary healthcare facilities in the State have been designated to commence provision of services under the scheme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">11) A grant of N142m was released to the Delta state Teaching Hospital to meet pressing needs. Infrastructural work at the Asaba Central Hospital has continued to receive priority attention from this administration and is now almost 70% completed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">12) \u00a0Over 4,000 participants are currently enlisted in the CBN Anchor Borrowers Programme. They are benefiting in the production rice, aquaculture and cassava. In line with the sustainability plan for YAGEPreneurs, the State Government has admitted them for participation in the Anchor Borrowers\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">13)Delta state 2018 budget proposal of N298.078bn. This amount comprises the sum of N147.5bn or 49.48% for recurrent expenditure, and N150.5 or 50.52% for capital expenditure. \u00a0The 2018 budget proposal shows an increase of N3.62bn or 1.21%, compared to the 2017 approved budget of N294.4b.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OKOWA-BUDGET.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16450\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OKOWA-BUDGET-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OKOWA-BUDGET-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OKOWA-BUDGET.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1)Two thousand three hundred and twenty four (2,324) unemployed youths including fifty one (51) Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) trained and established in enterprises of their choice. 2) About 4,000 youths trained in vocational centres across the State 3) Under the State Employment and Expenditure For Results (SEEFOR) project to which the State has contributed N600m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[4241],"class_list":["post-16442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-delta-state-2018-budget-proposal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OKOWA-BUDGET.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-4hc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16456,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions\/16456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}