According to the Secretary of State for Budget and Public Investment, Aia Eza da Silva, a recent rich experience in the domain of charging fees and emoluments in school institutions aroused the need to implement a portal in each school.
"The challenge is big because the municipal or communal administrations are clearly outnumbered, in relation to the number of schools, that's why during the first times we noticed the floods and we managed to dodge so that the charges happened in schools", stated the ruler.
For Eza da Silva, it is necessary that secondary schools monitor the charges they make in order to carry out their expenses: "But the challenge is that each school has its own access, has its own portal".
"And from there, you can make your collections via the portal and also make the expenses through this means", underlined the secretary of State, in the presentation and clarifications on the functionality of the Portal do Munícipe (PM).
"It is important to do it via the portal, because despite being devolved and no longer directly depending on us, there is a CUT (Single Treasury Account) within the central CUT, a sub-account where these resources are allocated autonomously," she explained.
The funds "are reverted to those who collected and do not depend on the Ministry or the Minister of Finance, it depends on the use of those who collected and it is important to be via CUT, because they are State resources and must be accounted for on their collection and expenses", highlighted Aia Eza da Silva.
The PM, whose operation and level of revenue collection were presented this Wednesday in Luanda, is installed in 164 municipalities and 44 urban districts in Angola.
Regarding the current stage of the PM, the government official recalled that the platform for providing more than 500 services and for charging fees and fines by local state administrations is accessed via the web and therefore entails "many challenges".
"We have many challenges due to the Internet, which is not yet a reality in many of our localities, but the portal is implemented in all municipalities in the country and is working even in the communal headquarters with the aim of disseminating the service", she noted.
The secretary of State for Budget and Public Investment of Angola also underlined that the PM stems from the financial deconcentration process, provided for in the 2018-2022 National Development Plan.
