Masauko Chipembere Phase III to start March
Blantyre City Council (BCC) has said phase III of the dual-carriage MasaukoChipembere Highway project will resume by March 1 as a contractor who was identified for the project is already on site.
The project, which was expected to start end November 2014 as indicated last year during the council’s first ordinary meeting, will be a dual carriage road from Yiannakis Roundabout to Standard Bank in Limbe and from there up to Illovo Roundabout through Livingstone Avenue, an existing one-way dual carriage road.
BCC chief executive officer Ted Nandolo, presenting a report from his office to the office of Blantyre City mayor Noel Chalamanda during the council’s second ordinary meeting held at the council chamber yesterday, said the works on the road have delayed because of the rains the country has been experiencing in the past weeks.
Nandolo also reported to the mayor that the council’s proposal to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the improvement of sanitation in the City of Blantyre has been approved and out of the 11 African cities which applied for the fund this time around, only Blantyre and Durban qualified.
Making a statement at the meeting, Chalamanda said the council has registered a positive in the area of street vending and although some vendors can still be seen sporadically, Blantyre is one of the cities that has done well on eviction of vendors from the streets.
Among other things, the meeting also adopted minutes of meetings that various council committees on education, finance, works, town planning, human resources, health and environment, had last year before going into discussions to map the way forward for the year 2015.
