Prime Minister finalizes the NSDP consultation in the Laulara sub-district

Mon. 20 of September of 2010, 18:13h
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The Prime Minister, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, ended the popular consultation about the National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP), in the Laulara sub-district, Aileu district on September 11th. The periplus to all districts and sub-districts in the country began last April.

Just as the Prime Minister explained several times, the SNDP is a type of strategic mapping out for the future, covering the 2010-2030 period, with the objective out of carrying Timor-Leste towards a prosperous future.

The Laulara sub-district Administrator, Abílio Alves, made it known that “the sub-district is composed of five sucos and 23 villages. 6 050 persons makes up the total of the population and the area is 87,3 square kilometers. The Laulara borders are: to the east with the Remexio sub-district, to the west with Liquiça e Ermera, to the north with the Cristo Rei e Vera Cruz sub-districts from the Díli district and to the south with Liquidoe and Aileu.

In their presentations the Chiefs of Suco highlighted the population’s needs: road and sewage repair; electrical installations; potable water; retirement homes for elders, widows, orphans and persons with special needs; solar panels; coffee threshers; an ambulance for the health centre; a computer training centre; English courses for young people and sewing machines for groups from the Timorese Women Organization (TWO).

The Prime Minister stated that “independence was 11 years ago but the people still doesn’t feel independent, and this plan comes to establish a vision for the development of the economy in a modern and diverse way, with quality infrastructures, including roads, potable water, electricity, ports and telecommunications. Subsistence agriculture, which only allows to go on living, should be substituted by market agriculture, to increase the community’s income for the long term and guarantee self-sufficiency. Timor-Leste lives a situation of stability, and the State is obligated to draft this National Strategic Development Plan to achieve the Nation’s goals and aspirations”

In this last popular consultation on the NSDP participated the members of the IV Constitutional Government and Alliance of Parliamentary Majority (Portuguese acronym AMP) members of Parliament.

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