Ministerial committee identifies needs of «grant schemes»

Ministerial committee identifies needs of "grant schemes"

Riyadh

Riyadh - Follow-ups
The ministerial committee formed by the Ministries of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Finance, Economy and Planning, Water and Electricity, Transportation, and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) has completed its tasks of inventorying (grant schemes) and identifying their needs for services (roads, water, drainage). The Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs has completed its tasks of inventorying (grant schemes) and identifying their need for services (roads, water, sewage, electricity, telecommunications), with the aim of developing the necessary plans to provide them and submit to the Ministry of Finance to request the necessary amounts in accordance with the available capabilities and budget approval rules.
The Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs emphasized that in its belief in its role in serving citizens and landowners in these plans and providing their services for which the necessary costs cannot be provided through the budget that takes into account the balance between sectors and services, the Ministry, with the participation of the concerned authorities, has submitted to the Supreme Council, which directed the formation of the ministerial committee for this purpose.

The Ministry has also developed plans to asphalt these plans and connect other services as soon as the cost estimates are completed, in addition to the Ministry's adoption of the bases and criteria that must be taken into account to prioritize the plans and communicate them to the secretariats and municipalities to determine the priority of the plans in preparation for their adoption in accordance with the methodology approved by the committee, and then directing them to be put forward for competition for implementation in accordance with the government tenders and procurement system, indicating that it has directed more than (160) municipal bodies to put forward the plans. The Ministry pointed out that the Municipalities and Municipalities asphalt the roads according to the priority of their order and within the limits of the costs approved in the budget, and among these priorities are the grant schemes throughout the Kingdom, and stressed the importance of providing services to these schemes, in parallel with the government agencies concerned with providing other services, which also extend their services to these schemes within the limits of the possibilities available to them.