President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said the national project to develop the villages of the countryside is the biggest integrated development project in the country’s modern history.
The President remarks came during his meeting Thursday with a host of businessmen taking part in the “Haya Karima” (Decent Life) initiative that mainly seeks to improve the quality of life in the poorest rural communities, Presidency Spokesman Bassam Radi said.
Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli and Head of General Intelligence Service (GIS) Abbas Kamel attended the meeting, which reviewed the targets of the national project for the development of 4,584 villages throughout the state within the framework of Haya Karima initiative, Radi said.
Sisi, during the meeting, reviewed the targets of the project, which aims to develop 4,584 villages in all governorates, housing 58 percent of the Egyptian population at a cost of LE 700 billion, Radi said.
The mega national project, he explained,focuses on upgrading the social, health, educational, economic and housing levels as well as all sectors of services provided to those villages.
The project also focuses on eliminating multi-dimensional poverty, investing in the development of the Egyptian human resources, in cooperation and coordination among all state’s institutions, in a way that integrates with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Radi added.
During the meeting, President Sisi said the project comes under the umbrella of Egypt’s Vision 2030 as it aims to develop all aspects of life in the countryside and achieve stability of citizens, Radi said.
He quoted President Sisi as saying: “The state is determined to make every effort to complete the project’s phases in the shortest time possible and to move on a large scale within the framework of an integrated collective effort between state institutions, the private sector, civil society, and development partners”.
President Sisi stressed that the project comes after a pivotal time period that Egypt has gone through since 2014, during which the focus was on adopting structural economic reforms that are considered the most comprehensive and deepest in Egypt’s history.
The president thanked the businessmen for their contributions and societal efforts in the “Decent Life” project within the framework of achieving economic and social development. He added that this project would represent a major qualitative leap for Egypt and open up prospects for relying on local production requirements, and then developing the industrial and business sector.
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