{"id":79166,"date":"2018-10-01T08:44:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T08:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/mayors-share-views-expertise-at-annual-conference\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:57:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:57:05","slug":"mayors-share-views-expertise-at-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/mayors-share-views-expertise-at-annual-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayors share views, expertise at annual conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"404\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/October\/1\/Ghani.jpg\" width=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The third Annual Mayors&rsquo; Conference was held at Arg (presidential palace) to share expertise on municipal affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The conference deliberated on ways and means to promote cooperation and collaboration among municipalities and private sector.<\/p>\n<p>President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani acknowledged the shortcomings in terms of legalities and capacities in municipalities that cause troubles to the citizens. He said lack of proper legislations has&nbsp;led to the encroachment of public land. He added a clear legal framework would allow and encourage the private sector to invest in cities.<\/p>\n<p>The president added there is a need to promote urban governance in line with the peoples&rsquo; choices, and the urban planning ideas adopted from different cities of the world should be altered in line with the conditions of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the moot, Abdul Mateen Baig, head of the Independent Directorate of Local Governance, said local councils have been formed on municipal level for better implementation of projects.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The third Annual Mayors\u2019 Conference was held at Arg (presidential palace) to share expertise on municipal affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-79166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}