Nine districts in the Ashanti region are benefiting from over ¢57 billion worth of infrastructural development under the Town IV Project of the German and Ghana governments.

The project, which is being implemented in the Ashanti region alone, involves the construction and rehabilitation of schools, markets, health and sanitation infrastructures.

The beneficiary districts are Afigya-Sekyere, Ejisu-Juaben, Kwabre, Ahafo-Ano North and South, Atwima-Mponua, Atwima-Nwabiagya and the Asante-Akim North and South.

Mr Emmanuel Asamoah Owusu-Ansah, Ashanti Regional Minister, made this known in an address read for him at the inauguration and inspection of some of the projects at Wiamoase in the Afigya-Sekyere District on Thursday.

The beneficiary schools at Wiamoase are the Salvation Army, Presbyterian and the Islamic Basic Schools.

He stressed the need for district assemblies to make maximum use of technical staff from the Department of Community Development and Public Works Department to supervise development projects in their districts.

Mr Owusu-Ansah thanked the German government for the support and urged the people to take good care of the projects.

He said since the Town IV Project was community-owned, there was the need for the assemblies to involve the beneficiary communities in the selection and the implementation process of the projects.

Dr Wolfgang Weteh, German Director of the Project, said the projects were a gift from the German people to Ghana on her 50th anniversary.

Source: GNA