Brigades takeover costs P249m
source: Mmegi
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer
The Brigades takeover is costing the Botswana government P248, 800, 330, Education and Skills Development Minister Jacob Nkate has told Parliament.
The takeover has resulted in 103 percent increase in the recurrent budget for the Department of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (DVET), bulging to P 488, 494, 570 in the 2009/10 financial year. Already government has taken over 22 brigades, which has settled their liabilities. The takeover is effective from April this year.
The takeover has added 731 new posts to the department’s (DVET) establishment. He said P15.8 million has resulted from the 15 percent salary increase on the pre-takeover posts, while operating costs of the Brigades have also risen by P126.8 million.The Brigades takeover gets another P20 million of the development budget.
Meanwhile, the University of Botswana (UB) gets P205, 468, 220 million and [continue reading]
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