The official spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic
stated that the meeting dealt with following up the executive position of the
projects of the "Decent Life" initiative to develop the Egyptian
countryside.
In this context, the President was briefed on the progress
of work and the executive position of the first phase of the initiative, which
includes a total number of 1,477 villages and their dependencies, comprising
about 18 million citizens. The implementation steps were reviewed at the level
of the Republic, and the measures taken to take into account the circumstances
and special nature of each province. As well as achievement rates at the level
of various sectors, especially sewage networks, drinking water, natural gas,
electricity and lighting, communications and post, transport and roads, model
government complexes, irrigation and agriculture, education, health, youth and
sports, social solidarity programs, housing, and local development, In addition
to various initiatives for economic development.
The overall challenges that emerged between the
planning stage and practices on the ground, and the measures taken to overcome
them, were also reviewed, in addition to the impact of the Corona crisis and
the Russian-Ukrainian crisis on the supply chains of raw materials and various
industrial components and their global prices, taking into account the
unprecedented volume of business. Within the framework of the initiative
projects, which are considered the largest of their kind in the history of
national projects in Egypt, in addition to the presence of large population
blocks outside the urban estates of villages, as well as the large number of
satellites of the villages, numbering more than 10,000 followers, in addition
to the conflict of implementation of some projects with the season Agriculture
and supplying some strategic food commodities