Singapore planners due in Arusha to assist in city master plan review


The Republic of Singapore will assist Arusha to draw its city master plan, with experts from the Asian country expected to jet here for the task soon.

City Director, Ms Sipora Liana, told a Regional Roads Board meeting here recently that her office had previously planned to go about the project alone, but when the costs to be involved in the making of the master plan was discovered to be in the range of 2.5bn/-, it occurred to the city authorities that they couldn’t afford the works on their own.

“We therefore asked for assistance from the Ministry of Lands where we were told that the Republic of Singapore had already pledged to help three Tanzanian cities to re-work their urban master plans, “ she stated.

Apparently Singapore had signed an official agreement with the government of Tanzania through which three urban centres of Arusha, Mbeya and Mwanza are to be assisted in drawing their master plans.

To that end, delegations from the Ministry of Lands and Human Settlements and the National Housing Corporation will be coming to Arusha this month to lay initial strategies towards the proposed joint venture in redrawing the city blueprint.


The regional Roads Board meeting was also told of plans to establish vehicle parking aprons adjacent to most city roads, extensions that will be built using paving blocks at the cost of 100mn/- during the 2014- 2015 fiscal year.

Arusha became a township in 1948 and had its status raised to a municipality in 1980. The urban centre was designated a city in November 2012 when President Jakaya Kikwete officially launched it.

By MARC NKWAME, Tanzania Daily News

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