Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa
Madbouli said that the first stage of the Decent Life Initiative, which
comprises a series of countryside-focused national infrastructure projects,
will be concluded by December of this year.
Madbouli said that the project’s initial phase was set to be completed by 30 June 2021, but a reschedule was necessary due to the delay in delivery of raw materials and equipment from abroad owing to the current global circumstances.
The Decent Life national project (Hayah Karima in Arabic) was initiated experimentally in 2019 by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and its first phase was officially launched in July 2021. The project aims to improve standards of living, infrastructure, and basic services including healthcare across the countryside.
The project covers 4,658 villages across the country, which are home to 58 percent of Egypt’s 102 million population, with an estimated budget of EGP 700 billion. The enormous volume of work needed to develop the 4,500 villages required the initiative to be divided into three stages comprising 1,500 villages each.
However, the prime minister asserted that the country gives priority to the presidential initiative despite the current circumstances, saying "the project achieves several objectives that we can't give up on."
Madbouli made his remarks during a press conference after going on an inspection tour of a number of Decent Life affiliated projects in the Nile Delta's Beheira governorate.
Madbouli said that over 4,320 projects are being implemented in the coastal governorate at a total cost of EGP 80 billion, in addition to some 8,886 projects affiliated with the Decent Life Initiative at a total cost of EGP44 billion – a combined cost of EGP 124 billon across Beheira governorate.
Source: Al-Ahram Online
