Simanjiro passes bylaws to increase revenue

Simanjiro. The Simanjiro District Council in Manyara Region has passed new levy bylaws on jewelry minerals and industrial construction in a bid to increase sources of own income for it to successfully implement its development projects.

Speaking at a full council meeting yesterday, the district council lawyer Crispin Kaijage said the bylaws have already been accepted by residents of various wards after reading and discussing them.

He said the bylaws would be effective after publication in the government gazette.

"These bylaws will be applied in the entire district of Simanjiro unless stated otherwise," said Mr Kaijage.

For his part, the district’s acting executive director Sile Salmin said the bylaws, when effective, would help increase council’s collections, adding that minerals were plentiful in different mines and that the council was supposed to enact bylaws on increasing the number of its sources of income.

Simanjiro District Council chairman Jackson Sipitieck said they had in place mechanisms for collecting revenue from its sources of income through the bylaws.

Orkesumet Councilor Sendeu Laizer called upon fellow councilors to approve the bylaws, saying many of the council’s sources of income were now under the central government and that the same council was now supposed to innovate its own sources of income.