By Maston Kaiya

Ntcheu, December 16, Mana: Ntcheu District Commissioner George Ngaiyaye has urged directors and sector heads at Ntcheu District Council to make realistic budgets.

Ngaiyaye made the remarks on Monday at a budget preparation meeting in Liwonde, Machinga district.

"The budgets should be formulated to address the goals of the council, they should be able to have meaningful work plans and activities," said Ngaiyaye.

Ngaiyaye added that the budgets should look at what the council want to achieve in the 2025-2026 financial year.

"When you poorly plan, it means the budget will also be poor in terms of implementation, therefore we will not realize what we intend to achieve as a council," highlighted Ngaiyaye.

On his part, Chief Education Officer for the district Julius Kamwaza said the education sector has located more resources to the supervision of teachers.

"If teachers are constantly checked, education can improve in the district," said Kamwaza adding that they have put in some money meant to motivate teachers and strategies to increase time for teacher-learner interaction.

He further highlighted that the sector will have a curriculum tracking whereby all the educational zones will be planning together and provide standardized tests.

Ntcheu District Council Disaster Risk Management Officer Walusungu Mwafulirwa said his sector has lined up various activities including capacity building of disaster risk management committees at all levels.

"We are going to conduct participatory vulnerability assessment in all the traditional authorities across the district.

"We are going to conduct camp management as we know that during disasters people seek refugee in schools, churches and other places but they do not know what to do," said Mwafulirwa and added that the whole essence is to build resilience among the communities.