Usama Sibani

Muscat Municipality (MM) بلدية مسقط

The Capital became a Governorate that includes six Wilayats and six public geographic directorates. For the first time, Muscat Municipality became fully responsible for its development projects after this had been divided among three ministries: the Ministry of Transportation for roads and bridges, the Ministry of Electricity and Water for street lighting, and the Ministry of Housing for housing projects. This is in addition to its other tasks regarding the regulation of local markets, public stores, and health affairs and the other activities related to human public health (cleanliness, eating, drinking, garbage management and disposal, supervising building constructions, approving the plans and layouts of all types of buildings inside the Governorate, and issuing construction permits. It also played a major role in ornamenting and greening the city through the building of public gardens and parks, children's playgrounds, and forestation. All this changes the face of the city altogether. As far as financial issues are concerned, Muscat Municipality has its independent budget prepared within. The internal auditing at the Municipality supervises all aspects of expenditure as per the financial regulations of the state. The sources of the budgets are either a governmental subsidy in the form of an allocated sum based on the population of Muscat Municipality or from the self-revenues that have become an important part of the said budget in light of self-sufficiency. As for the project's developmental plans, the municipality prepares them, but they should be subjected to some kind of revision by the higher financial authorities that review them and make the necessary amendments according to the financial conditions and the urgent priorities for the projects in the country that are presented by the ministries and the other governmental authorities.