{"id":411171,"date":"2018-03-20T05:45:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T05:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=411171"},"modified":"2018-03-20T11:04:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T11:04:29","slug":"mps-to-get-ghc75000-each-for-education-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/mps-to-get-ghc75000-each-for-education-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs to get GHc75,000 each for education projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Parliament are expected to receive GHc75,000 each for the funding of education-related projects and monitoring of same in their constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>The amount was captured in the recently approved Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) formula for 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In the formula, each MP was allocated GHc60,000 for the projects and GHc15,000\u00a0for their monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>This amounts to a total of GHc 20.6 million out of the GHc924 million approved as the\u00a0amount to be disbursed this year from the GETFund.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the amount approved for the GETFund, 35.48% representing GHc328,136,603 has been allocated to tertiary institutions, 27.72% representing GHc246,323,360 will be going to secondary schools; 27.37% representing\u00a0 GHc253,11,580 to basic schools, while other expenses by the GETFund amount to GH\u00a266,604,000, representing 7.2%.<\/p>\n<p>The allocation for the MPs&#8217; projects and monitoring represents 2.23%.<\/p>\n<p>The allocation for the MPs is a slight increase from 2017, where\u00a0GHc15,125,000 and\u00a0GHc4,425,000 were allocated to the MPs\u00a0Emergency Projects and monitoring respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0GETFund\u00a0is a public trust set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Its core mandate is to provide funding to supplement government effort for the provision of educational infrastructure and facilities within the public sector from the pre-tertiary to the tertiary level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Duke Mensah Opoku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Parliament are expected to receive GHc75,000 each for the funding of education-related projects and monitoring of same in their constituencies. 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