Ministry of Tourism and Diasporan Relations to look into the Greater
Accra Metropolitan Area Development Plan developed 15 years ago.The
action was informed by the growing demand of the economy in terms of
population size, infrastructure and social needs as well as the
changes in governance of the City.Dr Thomas Fokuo Agyapong, Director
for the Modernization of the Capital City, who was speaking to the
Ghana News Agency on Wednesday in Accra, said the Committee made up of
experts including economists, development planners, engineers and
architects were mandated to review the plan to give it a short, medium
and long-term strategic view.He said the old plan had features like
road networks, telecommunications, environment and natural resources
and security.
Dr Agyapong said a two-year strategic plan had been developed in the
interim to look at the urban economy in respect of Greater Accra and
Tema.He noted that economic and social development needed to be
dynamic to reflect current and growing changes in the society, hence
the need for a workable plan, which would facilitate the City's
development and beautification.Dr Agyapong said the growth in
population required that the features in the 1992 plan were reviewed
and the necessary modifications done to suit the status of the Capital
City.
He said so far copies of the drafted Review Plan had been circulated
to all sectors concerned, including Ministries, Department and
Agencies to enable them to make inputs.He said after every necessary
procedure had been followed and the draft approved by the Government,
it would become a working document for local authorities, the Accra
Metropolitan Assembly, Tema Municipal Assembly and other districts
within the Capital City.
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