As part of the acceleration of the implementation of development projects launched by His Majesty the King in Greater Casablanca, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, Minister of National Territorial Development, Urban Planning, Housing and Urban Policy, chaired at the Ministry’s headquarters, the Central Committee for monitoring the agreement on the requalification and urban integration of 72 under-equipped neighborhoods which was signed in 2014, as part of the Greater Casablanca Development Plan (PDGC). This meeting took place in the presence of the Wali of the Casa-Settat Region as well as representatives of the various public partners.
This meeting was an opportunity to inquire regarding the progress of this program and the implementation of the recommendations from the last session of the central committee held on June 04, 2019 and also to discuss solutions. likely to thwart the constraints with a view to completing this project within the agreed deadlines and offering citizens a better living environment.
“In common agreement with the various parties, we are working on a new approach in order to equip, firstly, the priority neighborhoods and then to attack the remainder which remains to be restructured”, declared Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri. And to add: “Today, we have observed that it is not the funding that is the problem for this program which concerns more than 56,000 households. We are going to multiply our efforts for a better prioritization of actions and more convergence around this program in order to achieve the objectives of the agreement”.
This new approach aims to implement the High Royal Instructions as well as the recommendations of the New Development Model aiming for more social equity, convergence and synergies between the various public actors concerned to guarantee maximum support.
As a reminder, the program of requalification and urban integration of 72 under-equipped neighborhoods was the subject of an agreement signed on September 26, 2014, before His Majesty the King, Mohammed VI, May God Assist him, whose specific agreement was signed in May 2015. The work planned concerns the creation of roads to open up the neighborhoods concerned as well as the execution and strengthening of the sanitation, drinking water, electrification and public lighting network.
The overall cost allocated to this program was around 2,016 MDH, including a grant from the FSHIU of 820 MDH. The realization was entrusted to the Al Omrane Casablanca-Settat Company for a total amount of 1,633 MDH and INMAE for an amount of 383 MDH.
