Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Mongi Bridge

Pindiu has on its development strategy has maintaining the flood destroyed Mongi bridge. This bridge is the live line of Pindiu’s change. Prior to this the road maintenance has started from Yunzain to Mongi bridge. The maintenance work was contracted to the youths of Yunzain. They have done a good work. The Mongi bridge foundation has being laid by a sub-contractor under the supervision of the Morobe Provincial works engineers. The bridge materials were procured through the Finschafen District Planning and Budgetary Committee. The funds were sought by the National Member of Parliament through the rural development and planning ministry. Many of the goods for Pindiu and even the Burum-Kuwat LLG go through this bridge. The people also get off the transport at Silemana village. It is a very long descending down to the bridge and onto the other side to the Mongi river there is a stretch of road thence Pindiu Township.
The coffee and other garden produce that needs to be taken to the markets are also taken to Silemana before load onto trucks to be taken to Finschafen-Gagidu station. The sick and badly injured are also taken on stretcher to Silemana and transported to Gagidu. It is expected that the bridge will be completed by the end of the month June 2012. The work is progressing well. The parts of the bridge have been delivered. About a week or two after the hardening of the concrete blocks the heavy metal bridge will be laid.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Development Strategies of Pindiu

Pindiu is the name of township of Hube local level government. It is a LLG of Finschafen district. It produces some of the intelligent brains of Finschafen. The township is located about 900meters above the sealevel. Due to the difficulty in terms of transportation the LLG president (Honorable Kata) and his council members have put forward a development plan. The plan is divided in 5 categories:- Economic/business, agricultural, infrastructure/water, social/spiritual and education. These major five pillars were sent to the district council to be approved. These are the flat form that Hube LLG-Pindiu will chart its course in the next five years 2012-2017.