20 Aug 2017

Community score card has been said to be very important in gauging provision of services by government ministries and departments in the communities they serve.

Speaking during a kgotla meeting, district commissioner for Kgatleng District, Mr Mompoloki Mochanang said through the community score card, they were able to know which ministry was unable to service the community and see how they could assist them.

“This is very valuable and assist government in knowing where help is needed and how to improve services,” Mr Mochanang said. He said the district commissioner’s monthly kgotla meetings around the villages play critical role in getting to know what the community needs and how his office could help them.

Mr Mochanang said it was important for them to fill in the community score card so that the services not rendered to them could be brought in and residents could enjoy the services, which government had provided for them.

He said among the services that needed to be addressed as per the community score card were lack of address on internal roads, refuse collection challenge and arrears on constituency games adding that concerned ministries had been brought on board to address the issues.

The district commissioner said his office had been mandated to deal with poverty eradication programme and they were doing a great job to address backlog of projects.

Last year, he said they were given P6.8 million and they used P6.7 million, while this year, they were given P3.6 million and to date P2.1 million had been used.Mr Mochanang said his office would push all the backlog projects adding that they wanted to complete them by December this year.

He said there was no longer an issue with shortage of goats after government increased the pricing of goats.

The district commissioner said he had encouraged the district development committee to visit projects and know their status.

Mr Mochanang said monitoring was very important because government had been given money for such projects.

When giving the Village Development Committee report, Secretary, Mr Tshepo Digangwa said they had seven houses, which were rented out. However, he said they had challenges with public officers who were not willing to pay rent.

He said they had a day care centre, which had an operating license and had been given to a youth group to run it and earn a living. He said they were still worried by lack of classrooms at Oodi Primary School as some students attended classes outside.

The secretary further said alcohol and drug abuse continued to be worrisome in the village especially among the youth and ask parents to help address this challenge. Ends