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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the basis for planning by the Ministry has been the district. In other words, the district has been the planning unit. However, the difficult part here is that the district, as a planning unit, is now an elastic thing because districts are being created by the second or minute. Today, we have 254 districts. Now, if your unit of planning is a district, which is changing from time to time, it undermines the credibility of your planning. I would like to recommend that we go the constituency way, because constituencies are predictable and we know them. They only change every ten years or so. To me, that would be a better thing and I would like to put it to the Minister of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 to consider using the constituency as the planning unit. The Minister has adequately explained that the resources are not even there to provide office accommodation, equipment, vehicles and manpower for all the districts that have mushroomed. So, there is no need to create districts that are dysfunctional. Let us match the increase in districts with corresponding resources to make them effective."
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