There have been increasing concerns over a number of years about the difficulties faced by Papua New Guineans living in rural and remote areas of PNG in accessing services that most urban dwellers take for granted. A parallel concern has been extent to which the education of people living in these areas is poorer than that of those living in areas with greater accessibility to education, welfare and other services. The Natinal Economic & Fiscal Commision has been dedicated to a vision of seeing regeneration of basic government services across the country. The need is most dire for our rural populations.
The people of Yelia in Obura Wonenera district Eastern Highlands and Menyamya distict in Morobe Province have faced tremendous issues and largely miss out of infrastructure developmental changes since the establishment of Papua New Guinea government. With various complains faced and made by the demoted communities concerning the issues affecting our entire community from road infrastructure development, Education, Health, small medium enterprices, Law and Order, social and gender issues, agriculture and so forth.
Service delivery is generally very limited across this two mentioned area as the so called mandated leaders were been overlooked in all these diverse sectors of services with very poor funds in their fake imaginary mind-sets to bring developmental changes towards the expectation of the people. Delivering services in remote locations is a significant determinant of those costs.
In many cases public servants act as delivery agents themselves because using commercial providers is not practical. During visits to Provinces it became clear that in many cases Provincial Governments have struggled to fulfill their service delivery obligations of providing basic services to the least satisfaction and maintenance of the other areas that were already in place such as renovation of old government station, rural clinics and chambers in the area.
Gemel Wox Wasi
Marawaka struggler.
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