Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday had an inspection tour in Cairo’s Ezbet Al-Haggana to follow-up on the ongoing development happening at the slum district, a statement from the presidency said.
Presidential Spokesperson Bassam Rady said in the statement that El-Sisi has directed the continuation of the state’s approach and its efforts to develop all random, insecure, and unplanned areas spread across the country from all sides.
El-Sisi has also ordered to determine the scale of efforts to change the reality of those areas in a way that improves the daily living conditions of the citizens and provides a decent life for the families residing within them, in addition to linking such areas to the new road network in the surrounding areas and providing various basic services, Rady said.
Among the officials who accompanied the president during his tour were the prime minister, and the ministers of electricity, water resources and irrigation, petroleum, education, planning and economic development, local development, trade and industry, housing, and health.
Egypt has been pushing forward with efforts to re-house residents of unsafe areas as part of the country's plan to put an end to the problem of informal residential areas countrywide by 2030.
Source: Al-Ahram Online
