AMMAN — Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Local
Administration
Tawfiq Krishan has said that the Kingdom’s municipalities’
outstanding debt stands at JD320 million, despite their income being enough to
cover their arrears, according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
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The minister
praised
Irbid for implementing a process that allows taxpayers to pay off their
debt to the municipality in installments. Doing so has allowed the municipality
to collect JD5 million in outstanding dues, he said.
Irbid needs this
income to be able to, for example, maintain its roads which is estimated to
cost JD7 million; to rehabilitate the majority of its roads the municipality
would need JD100 million, Krishan said.
Other
municipalities face similar problems, the minister said, particularly relating
to road maintenance and trash collection.
Furthermore,
Krishan said that no new work permits will be issued to foreign trash
collectors and street sweepers in order to prioritize
Jordanians.
He also said that
municipalities that implement development and investment projects in
partnership with the private sector will get the ministry’s full support.
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