The GOVERNMENT is preparing an ambitious plan for the City of Dar es Salaam that aims to provide solutions to the challenges that exist in the city, the implementation of which will go hand in hand with the management of urban development based on the identified uses.

This has been said by the Minister of Land, Housing and Development of Housing, Dr.

Angeline Mabula today in the city of Dar es Salaam when she met with the leaders of the Dar es Salaam Region to discuss the plan, but also the issue of decentralization in the city.

Minister Mabula added that every planning authority has a legal responsibility to set a strategy to prevent development that does not follow the rules, regulations and procedures, adding that without doing so the government will fail to implement the plans and thus misuse the public's money.

Minister Mabula added that the Vision of the Master Plan is to have a sustainable, competitive City that uses its resources effectively and preserves the environment and that aims to promote culture and preserve its long-term history.

Minister Mabula told the members of the meeting that the Plan has been prepared based on the National Vision 2025 defined in the Development Plan 2021-22 to 2025-26 and provides guidance in making decisions in the use and development of land, to ensure orderly development in the growth of the City of Dar es Salaam until 2036.

Minister Mabula has said that the plan provides answers to the challenges facing the city including traffic congestion, arbitrary construction, lack of community services and infrastructure.

"The recommendations of this Master Plan are based on the increase of investment opportunities which at the end of the day will increase employment through the various projects proposed," noted Minister Mabula.

He mentioned some of the proposed projects as the construction of factories in the areas of Pugu, Pembamnazi, Kisarawe II and Kimbiji, the construction of a ring road in Ilala and Ubungo Municipalities, improvement and development of the Msimbazi River Basin.

Other projects are the conservation of historical places in the middle of the city, the clean water project in the Kimbiji area, the construction of modern landfills in the areas of Kisopwa and Lingato, the construction of small industries in some of the formalized areas.

"Until now, housing formalization in the country has been done in 1961 streets in 164 councils of all 26 regions. In those streets, a total of 2,338,926 plots have been designed through 7,051 urban planning drawings," added Minister Mabula.

Minister Mabula also added that the issue of testing has been carried out to a large extent where a total of 1,170,639 plots have been measured and approved which is equal to 50.4 percent of all planned plots.