"Local Parliament" calls for the government to make a detailed statement on the resources of the provinces

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Eng. Ahmad Al-Sejaini, Chairman of the Local Management Committee in the House of Representatives, asked the government to provide the committee with a comprehensive statement on the self-financing of all the governorates and the coverage of each of its own needs.

Mohammed Khalil, Director General of the Ministry of Planning, said during a meeting of the Local Administration Committee in the House of Representatives, which is currently being held to discuss Damietta Governorate Budget Project in the fiscal year 2019/2020, that the ministry is working through a national projects plan. Each governorate has a request to reinforce certain items during the fiscal year and during the implementation of investment projects, to meet the desires according to available investments, pointing out that the treasury was 231 million pounds in 2017/2018 increased in the current fiscal year to 302 million.

In turn, the chairman of the committee, Eng. Ahmad Al-Sejaini, said that "Damietta's self-financing of 30 million pounds", speaking of detailed figures on important items that need to be covered, such as civil protection, traffic and the pavement network, continued: "The current budget amounts are much better. Damietta furniture city project 100%.

The representative of the Ministry of Planning commented on the possibility of redistributing the programs to fill the deficit in some items. The Chairman of the Committee inquired whether the governorates were informed during the presentation of the budgets according to the Alexandria model, and called on the Ministry of Local Development to issue a self-financing statement for each governorate, To follow up the capacity of the province to introduce income, rehabilitation or training.

Brigadier Ehab Younis, head of the Central Department of Provincial Budgets in the Ministry of Finance, said that the Ministry of Local Development sends a book to the governors every three months to implement every quarter of the fiscal year, including the financial performance of the governorates, through self-financing and public budget. Budget every month. "The rate of exchange every three months represents 25%."

The increase in the second section of Damietta governorate was 4.77% and the largest proportion was directed to fuel, oils and driving forces to increase the work, taking into consideration the high prices, in addition to increasing the maintenance ratio of 3.7%, said Samar Mahfouz, Director General and Head of the Public Finance Division at the Ministry of Finance. % To preserve state assets. Follow-up: "We allocated two million pounds to contribute to the coverage of accounts and special funds, and the allocation of 16 million and 185 thousand pounds to cover the accounts, in addition to increasing the share of the city of furniture from the public reserve by 116 million and 120 thousand pounds," asserting that the Ministry of Finance will spare no effort to meet the needs of the province during Implementation of the budget during the fiscal year.

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