Local Parliament "discusses the reasons for directing the Upper Egypt Development Loan to sewage projects for non-targeted villages

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The Local Management Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, headed by Eng. Ahmed Al-Sajani, discussed the request for a briefing by MP Moataz Mahmoud on the international loan for the development of the governorates of Upper Egypt, submitted to the Qena Governorate on sewage projects and infrastructure in villages not included in the State Plan.

This came during a meeting of the Committee, on Sunday, where MP Moataz Mahmoud reviewed the request to the Committee, stressing that the priority of the Qus Qena in the implementation of sanitation in villages that do not have a desert dahir, the villages of "Shanhur – Kalasa – Karka", and because this soil The villages mud and the high level of groundwater to the extent of danger threatens the lives of citizens The cars of the sewage sweeping the houses of these villages and throw them in banks and canals that irrigate the agricultural land, which leads to exposure to the health of citizens for kidney failure and cancer.

He added: "We were surprised that the loan was granted to the villages of (Hijaz tribal and sea vacation and the comments) note that these villages desert and has a desert back very large and there is no rise of groundwater and also the existence of a mountain next to cars can sweep away from agricultural land, As well as the cost of sanitation in the villages of Hijaz Qabli and a sea vacation equivalent to the work of sewage for a number of 6 villages due to the large area, in addition to the existence of sugar and paper manufacturers in the city of Qus, and these factories so far did not do industrial sewage for their waste, and spend their waste in the waters of the Nile and near Water filter, leading to water pollution Drink and endanger the lives of citizens"He said.

He called for the allocation of the loan to the priorities that citizens need and which is required by logic and reason rather than by uneducated decisions that lead to congestion of the street.

Brigadier Walid Al-Baili, assistant secretary-general of Qena Governorate, said that the allocation of the loan is made through the World Bank Advisory, where all the projects related to the exchange are presented to him and he decides to start implementing the application on the ground. , According to the terms and conditions, including the conduct of community dialogue and number Which is implemented in that it conducted a community dialogue to start in the desert villages to implement the loan, especially that the villages own by 115 thousand people, representing 25% of the population of Qena, while the villages on which the MP speaks about 5% of the population.

Al-Bayli stressed that the conditions of the World Bank shall be decisive in implementation, and its violation shall not be implemented. This is in accordance with the signed loan, confirming that the governorate is following up the matter and has no right of objection, and its role is limited to presenting information, plans and data. , Pointing out that if it was in his hand was started in the villages where MP talked about where the suburbs suffered by citizens, saying: "Despite this there are plans for the next year and after the next to cover the rest of the areas, including what the MP."

"This loan was approved by the committee two years ago and what is being discussed now needs to be reviewed. The problem of sanitation is a big problem in the villages of Upper Egypt. Because the loan once approved becomes public money.

For his part, MP Mu'taz Mahmoud said that the province did not expose the matter honestly, because many villages in different areas of Qena suffer from the problem of drainage, and the wells are constantly shaking, and have a large population density, and were not taken into account on the loan, and was directed to places in the desert, Where other villages, the largest population density and no attention at all or put in the implementation plan from the beginning and the direction of the desert and villages, stressing that a comprehensive investigation is needed.

MP Mamdouh al-Husseini, a member of the local administration committee, agreed with him, stressing the need for investigation. The implementation of the first phase of the loan should be directed to the village that suffers from continuous rifts. As much as the suffering of continuous rash.

The MP Mohammed al-Husseini, a member of the House of Representatives criticized the requirements of the World Bank in the implementation of the loan on the ground, and arguments for community dialogue and population density, stressing that these interventions are rejected, and the province should have a role in that and be the priority of those who suffer Of the continuous rash of drainage and not the outskirts of the villages in the desert.

The committee decided to postpone the discussion for a later session, which witnessed the presence of all specialists in the implementation of this loan, and is reviewing its implementation on the ground, especially as the local management committee is the one that discussed and approved it and is entitled to review the implementation, where he stressed that the meeting will be a comprehensive investigation on the mechanisms of implementation that The governorate shall provide a full memorandum on the whole matter to be included for investigation.

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