The file of confronting land encroachments remains primarily a national security issue, as it represents a threat to the built environment and urban planning, in addition to confronting encroachments on agricultural lands, as the agricultural sector is one of the basic pillars of the state’s economy, and a strategic pillar in efforts to achieve food security, which It has become an urgent necessity in light of global changes, which has prompted the state to take strict measures to ensure that there is no tolerance and decisive treatment of land encroachments, while developing monitoring and control tools, through coordinating work between the various institutions concerned to preserve the agricultural land and protect the capabilities and property of the state and the rights of future generations. Stopping random construction and the cultural and civilizational distortion of society, as well as expanding agricultural projects to compensate for the losses caused by encroachments over the past years, and expanding the sustainable urban renaissance in the face of random construction, all of which are efforts that have been widely praised by international institutions.
In this regard, the Cabinet Media Center published a report that included infographics highlighting the state’s successful efforts to remove land encroachments and prevent random construction with the aim of building sustainable urban communities in order to continue building a modern, modern state.
The report discussed the international vision of the state’s efforts to stop encroachments and random construction, as the United Nations Population Fund expects in 2023 that Egypt will witness a redistribution of its population thanks to major investments in urban development, as the government has implemented many projects, including This is the development of slum areas and the construction of the new administrative capital.As for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), it confirmed in (2023) that the Ministry of Agriculture is making great efforts to achieve agricultural development through horizontal expansion projects, as it reclaims areas desert areas with projects such as Toshka al-Khair, the New Delta, and the development of Sinai and the Egyptian countryside.
For its part, the African Union indicated in (2023) Egypt’s implementation of major national projects that integrate with the action plan of the updated National Agricultural Development Strategy 2030, most notably the establishment of communities An integrated agricultural industrial plant on an area of 1.5 million acres, and agricultural expansion in Sinai.
This comes as the Islamic Organization for Food Security reported in (2024) that the government plans to expand agricultural lands and strengthen the agricultural land tenure system, by simplifying procedures Land allocation, modernizing legislation, and supporting secure land tenure.
In turn, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development saw in (2024) that plans aimed at simplifying land allocation in Egypt are moving in the right direction, as the National Center was launched Spatial data infrastructure in 2020 with the aim of establishing an integrated national planning system to prevent land encroachments in the future. In addition to the above, the United Nations Development Program indicated in (2023) that Egypt is among the best countries in reducing the proportion of slum residents out of the total urban population.
The report reviewed the state’s efforts to confront and prevent encroachments on agricultural lands. Lands are state property, indicating the removal of 183,000 cases encroaching on land through construction and agriculture out of a total of 627.2 thousand cases as of October 20, 2024. This included the removal of 58.8 thousand cases encroaching on lands with an area of 434.1 thousand acres, representing 36.9% of the total encroachment cases, in addition to 124.2 thousand cases encroaching on construction. They were removed with an area of 94 million square meters, representing 26.5% of the total encroachment cases.
The report also stated that 83.9 thousand contracts were released from the total applications submitted for legalization until October 20, 2024 under Law No. 144 of 2017, regarding some Rules and procedures for disposing of private state property, including 57.9 thousand building land contracts, and 25.9 thousand agricultural land contracts.
With regard to Law No. 17 of 2019 regarding reconciliation of some building violations and codifying their status, a decision was made on 500 thousand requests for reconciliation of building violations, in addition to the number of requests for legalization and reconciliation that have been submitted so far reaching about 665 thousand requests in accordance with Law No. 137 of 2023, issuing the law for reconciliation in some building violations and codifying their status, and extending the period prescribed for submitting requests for reconciliation over building violations and legalization. conditions for an additional period of 6 months after the end of the period scheduled for November 4.
The report touched on the deterrent laws and decisions to stop infringements, as anyone who infringes on… Agricultural land or state-owned land in accordance with Law No. 164 of 2022 and Law No. 164 of 2019, in addition to stopping the disbursement of subsidized fertilizers to about 18 thousand beneficiaries, including electricity theft and trespassing on state-owned lands and agricultural lands.
The laws and decisions, according to the report, also include approval of a draft decision to stop all types of support for trespassers on state lands, similar to what is done in the case of trespassing on agricultural lands, in addition to stopping food support for about 82 thousand violators, due to building trespasses on agricultural lands (until September 17, 2024). ). The report revealed the geographical distribution of the number of encroachments removed at the governorate level, which amounted to 4,090 in Cairo Governorate, 5,635 in Giza, 613 in Qalyubia, 4,112 in Alexandria, 31,094 in Beheira, 1,403 in Matrouh, 2,294 in Menoufia, 10,042 in Gharbia, 4,369 in Kafr El-Sheikh, and 415 in Damietta.
As for the number of encroachments removed in Dakahlia Governorate, it amounted to 5705, South Sinai 93, Port Said 400, Ismailia 1032, Suez 535, Sharqia 18380, Beni Suef 7609, Fayoum 9894, Minya 2075, Assiut 8383, and Al-Wadi New 2008, Sohag 48381, Qena 7670, Aswan 3194, Luxor 3220, and Red Sea 378.
The report discussed the expansion of land reclamation to compensate for the losses of encroachments on agricultural lands, pointing out that more than 2 million acres It is the total reclaimed area since 2014, indicating that among the most prominent projects is the New Delta Project, within which the current cultivated area has reached 800 thousand acres, out of a total of 2.8 million acres.
The report indicated that among the most prominent projects is also , Sinai Development Project, bringing the current cultivated area to 285 thousand acres, out of a total of 1.1 million acres, in addition to the Egyptian Countryside Project, bringing the current cultivated area to 400 thousand acres, out of a total of 1.5 million acres, in addition to the Toshka project, in which the current cultivated area reached 470 thousand acres, out of a total of 1.1 million acres.
The report also reviewed efforts to develop slum areas to provide safe housing. With regard to developing unsafe slum areas, 246 thousand units were dealt with in 357 areas at a cost of 63 billion pounds, and Egypt became free of unsafe areas in the year 2022, in addition to the development of unplanned slum areas, whose estimated cost is 318 billion pounds, and 121 areas were developed, with a total of 12.6 thousand acres.
As for the most prominent projects that have been completed in unsafe areas, It includes Bashayer Al-Khair (1-2-3), the number of beneficiaries of which reached 75.6 thousand beneficiaries, with a number of 15.1 thousand housing units, as well as Al-Asmarat (1-2-3), the number of beneficiaries reached 91.4 thousand beneficiaries, with a number of housing units of 18.3 thousand units. While the number of beneficiaries from the Ahalina Project (1-2) reached 12.5 thousand beneficiaries, with 2.5 thousand housing units. The report reviewed efforts to expand the establishment of new cities and housing units to prevent random construction. He explained that the implementation of residential and economic projects is being completed in 38 fourth generation cities, including the New Administrative Capital, with an area of 170 thousand acres and planned to accommodate 6.5 million people, as well as the New Al-Fashn City, with an area of 18 thousand acres and planned to accommodate one million people.< /p>
The report also stated that 1.5 million housing units have been implemented and are being implemented, most notably the implementation of 684 thousand units within social housing units, while 316 thousand units are being implemented, in addition to the implementation of 175 thousand units within medium housing projects. It is targeted to implement 115 thousand units, in addition to implementing 48 thousand units within luxury housing projects, and it is targeted to implement 35 thousand units.
