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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1254199/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury and Economic Planning",
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    "content": "and Ksh400 million for the Digital Literacy Programme and ICT integration in our secondary schools. To support infrastructure development and ensure safe learning in schools, I propose to the National Assembly to effect a budget allocation of Ksh6 billion for primary schools’ and secondary schools’ infrastructure, including classrooms for junior secondary schools; and Ksh1.9 billion for construction and equipment of technical training institutes and vocational training centres. Further, Ksh1.8 billion is proposed to increase access and improve the quality of technical and vocational education training programmes under the East Africa Skills Transformation and Regional Integration Project. I propose to the National Assembly to effect budget allocations to the education sector to include Ksh316.7 billion for Teachers’ Service Commission, Ksh97.5 billion for university education, Ksh30.3 billion for Higher Education Loans Board, Ksh2.7 billion for Kenya Secondary Education Quality Improvement Project, and Ksh5.2 billion capitation for TVET students. A sum of Ksh980 million is proposed for Technical Vocational Education Training and Entrepreneurship, Ksh1.5 billion for promotion of youth employment and vocational training, and Ksh749 million for research, science, technology and innovation. Hon. Speaker, let me now move to supporting manufacturing for job creation. In order to improve productivity in the manufacturing sector, as earlier indicated, the Government has adopted the value chain approach through the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda. This will address bottlenecks that impede the growth of the manufacturing sector in order to create jobs and enhance the economy’s competitiveness. To further promote local industries, I propose to the National Assembly to effect a budget allocation of Ksh26.9 billion under the various implementing Ministries, Departments and Agencies. Out of this allocation, Ksh4.7 billion will support establishment of County Integrated Agro-Industrial Parks, Ksh3 billion will be used for construction of six Export Processing Zones flagship projects, Ksh3.1 billion for supporting access to Finance and Enterprise Recovery Project, Ksh500 million for the development of Special Economic Zones Textile Park in Naivasha, and Ksh1.8 billion for the construction of an effluent treatment plant at Kinanie. In addition, in order to maximise the benefits from our cash crops, the Government will make further investment towards the revival of enhancement of output. In this respect, I propose to the National Assembly to effect a budget allocation to the revitalisation of cash crops - Ksh120 million for cotton, Ksh62 million for coconut, Ksh35 million for cashew-nuts, and Ksh150 for pyrethrum. I also propose to the National Assembly to effect a budget allocation of Ksh100 million for the modernisation of co-operative cotton ginneries, Ksh134 million for the National Edible Oils Crop Promotion Project, and Ksh270 million for Sugar Reforms Support Project. Hon. Speaker, to equip the youth with essential internship opportunities, I propose to the National Assembly to effect a budget allocation of Ksh1.5 billion for the Kenya Industry and Entrepreneurship Project, Ksh300 million for the Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities Project, Ksh332 million for the construction of industrial research laboratories and Ksh182.9 million for the Constituencies Industrial Development Centres."
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