The Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly has made significant strides in the area of education, health and sanitation, the Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Edward Ayagle, has said.

Speaking at the first Ordinary Meeting of the Assembly on Friday, he said the Assembly had constructed three-unit classroom blocks at Yebongo, Zuarungu Moshie, Adakora and Zuarungu Central.

The Assembly has also built two teachers’ quarters at Kalbeon and Katanga and procured 180 mono desks and supplied them to Anateem, Adakora and Zuarungu Central.

Mr. Ayagle said the two Members of Parliament for the area utilized their District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) to sponsor needy students in the Municipality. The Bolgatanga East MP, Dr. Dominic Ayine, supported 64 students with 23,750.00 Ghana cedis and the MP for the Bolgatanga Central, Mr. Opam Brown, supported 85 students amounting to 21,817.00 Ghana cedis.

“We have increased the beneficiary schools under the School Feeding Programme to 32 with a total enrolment of 13,400 pupils,” Mr. Ayagle said.

On sanitation, the MCE said the refuse truck and the cesspool emptier the Assembly bought in 2013 were in use and had also increased the waste collection sites by providing 10 more waste containers.

Mr. Ayagle said another remarkable achievement of the Assembly was the provision of 49 boreholes in 25 communities, construction of a small water system at Kalbeon which is ongoing while periodic maintenance of other water systems in the Municipality had been carried out leading to increase provision of portable water in the Municipality.

“Five hundred low tension poles have been procured for distribution under the Rural Electrification Project and rehabilitation of street lights in the Municipality is currently ongoing,” Mr. Ayagle said.

The Assembly, he said, also gave support to the Municipal Health Directorate in their outreach programmes on immunization, malaria prevention and control and the distribution of food to malnourished children.

Mr. Ayagle said the Assembly’s internally generated fund amounted to 969, 107.89 Ghana cedis and appealed to the Assembly members to help ensure that the street naming exercise which the Assembly was about to undertake becomes successful.