Dr. Manal Awad, Minister of Local Development, reviewed the Ministry’s efforts to achieve sustainable urban and agricultural development and reduce the development gaps between rural and urban areas through implementing programs and projects aimed at developing villages and urban areas in an integrated manner, with a focus on improving infrastructure and enhancing the quality of life for citizens.
This came during the Minister of Local Development’s participation in a meeting of the Local Administration Committee in the House of Representatives, headed by Engineer Ahmed Al-Sijini, a member of the House of Representatives, and in the presence of Counselor Mahmoud Fawzi, Minister of Parliamentary Legal Affairs and Political Communication.
< /p>
The Minister of Local Development explained that the urban estate was completed for 230 cities, representing 100% of the total number of cities, and the urban estate was completed for 4,607 villages, representing 96% of the total number of villages, and 22,471 estates, Kafr and Nag, representing 69 percent. %.. As for the detailed plans, 169 cities were completed, representing 78% of the total number of 216 cities, as well as 4,146, representing 93% of the total number of villages, which amounted to 4,478 villages.
Dr. Manal Awad referred to the Ministry’s efforts in detailed plans for industrial zones in the state of the governorates, which number 66 industrial zones in 22 governorates, where a detailed plan is being prepared for 50 industrial zones through the Military Survey Department in light of the protocol signed with the Ministry, which includes 13 An industrial zone for which a general and detailed plan has been prepared, and 37 industrial zones are being completed, pointing out that there are 13 industrial zones for which detailed plans have been prepared through consulting offices and contracted through the governorates, in addition to the fact that there are 3 industrial zones that do not You need detailed plans.
Dr. Manal Awad, Minister of Local Development, also presented the Ministry’s efforts to implement the integrated system for municipal solid waste management in the governorates. The Minister of Local Development said that the programs of the integrated system for solid waste management include three main programs, including the program The first is "infrastructure development" It includes establishing fixed intermediate stations, providing mobile intermediate stations, establishing sanitary burial cells, raising efficiency, establishing recycling and treatment lines, and closing random dumps. The second program is “financing operating costs.” It includes financing contracts for collection, transportation, street cleaning, and financing the management of safe sanitary landfills, in front of the third program “Institutional and Community Support” Which is concerned with establishing central waste management units in the governorates, preparing a unified waste law and a media plan for the system, in addition to technical support, a collection system, and initiatives and awareness campaigns.
Dr. Manal Awad confirmed that the Ministry plays an important and vital role in managing the system’s file. Integrated management of municipal solid waste at the level of ongoing infrastructure programs at the governorate level, where the total daily generation generated during the last period reached about 6 million tons from 54 sites, and 500 thousand tons are being raised during the next phase, bringing the total to 6.5 million tons, historical accumulations. In the field of constructing intermediate stations, the total number of mobile intermediate stations has reached 87 stations, of which 14 stations have been delivered, and the delivery of 11 fixed intermediate stations has been completed, and 4 stations are being delivered, bringing the total number of fixed intermediate stations to 15 stations, explaining that in the field of cemeteries Safe health… 28 sanitary landfills have been completed and delivered, and 18 sanitary landfills are being completed, bringing the total number of landfills scheduled to be constructed to 46 landfills, in addition to 9 treatment and recycling factories, and two factories are being completed, bringing the total scheduled to establish 11 recycling and treatment factories. A number of 4 primary sorting stations were also completed and delivered in South Sinai Governorate (Ras Sidr – phase – Abourdis – Nuweiba) where these lines were established in places with simple population density due to the lack of daily electricity, and the station includes a locally made sorting belt, axial loader, an electricity generator, and a sorting press.
The Minister of Local Development indicated To the efforts made in following up on operating contracts for collection, transportation, and street cleaning companies, signing contracts for collection, transportation, and street cleaning services, whereby joint committees were formed that included representatives of (Environment and Local Development) to visit the cleaning companies operating in the governorates in accordance with the signed contracts. Some violations were monitored and the governorates were notified of the necessary companies to implement the provisions. contract, referring to the second program for the waste system " Financing operating costs" It includes the signing of 13 contracts for residential collection services, transportation, street cleaning, and services for treatment, recycling, and safe disposal of waste in 7 governorates, namely (Cairo, Alexandria, South Sinai, Dakahlia, Menoufia, Gharbia, and Sohag). It is targeted to sign 4 management and operation contracts, which are: a contract for the management and operation of the Al-Jabal Tuna Factory in Minya Governorate. A contract for the management and operation of the Abu Jarida landfill and factory in Damietta Governorate, and a contract for the management and operation of the sanitary landfill in the city of Sharm El-Sheikh in the South Sinai Governorate, in addition to a contract for the management and operation of the sanitary landfill in the city of Al-Tur in the South Sinai Governorate.
Dr. Manal Awad revealed the executive position of the ministry’s plan to develop and raise the efficiency of the government slaughterhouses taking place in the governorates, in light of the implementation of the political leadership’s mandates to work in the national project to develop government slaughterhouses to encourage the culture of slaughter inside slaughterhouses, preserve the environment and public health for citizens, and provide safe and high-quality red meat for citizens. high and at reasonable prices, pointing out that the number of slaughterhouses targeted for development is 464 slaughter point slaughterhouses, which will be implemented in 4 stages of development.
The Minister of Local Development explained that the number of slaughterhouses that have been developed and increased Its efficiency within the first phase on the land of the governorates, which was implemented by the Central Reconstruction Agency of the Ministry of Housing and New Urban Communities, reached 43 slaughterhouses (which included 42 government slaughterhouses developed in 22 governorates and raising the efficiency of a logistical slaughterhouse in Damietta Governorate), and it also touched on the governorates that received the slaughterhouses that were developed. It has established and numbered 13 slaughterhouses so far within 8 governorates, namely (the Red Sea – The lake – Dakahlia – Western – Ismailia – Assiut – Menoufia – Qalyubia), and it was noted that there are 13 slaughterhouses that have been completed and are being received from the Central Reconstruction Agency, in addition to 17 slaughterhouses that are being completed, as the normal work has been completed by 100% and the electromechanical is being completed, stressing that the state is keen on making optimal use of all the slaughterhouses that have been completed. Develop it and raise its efficiency or establish it again and make maximum use of the investments that have been pumped into developing the slaughterhouses within the first phase, in a way that contributes to achieving the desired objectives of the project, including increasing the added value by making use of all products and waste in an appropriate economic manner with regard to slaughtering products within the framework of implementing the waste system. Solid municipality.
