The Egyptian government moves to the administrative capital.. What will be achieved?

The Egyptian Prime Minister, Mostafa Madbouly, reviewed, at the weekly cabinet meeting, which was held at the headquarters of the government district in the new administrative capital, the arrangements related to preparation and preparation for the transfer of ministries, noting that this comes as a “prelude to the transfer of other ministries and agencies, successively.”.

The Egyptian government’s move to move to the new administrative capital comes “to relieve pressure on Cairo, and move employees to perfectly equipped smart places that serve everyone,” according to the expert on sustainable development and urban development, Hussein Hassan..

Hassan continued, in his interview with “Sky News Arabia”: “Most of the projects in the new administrative capital are environmentally friendly, and the start of the actual transfer of ministries sends a message to everyone, that Egypt is able to complete its largest project, with its good training to deal with governance and mechanized services.”“.

The importance of moving ministries to the administrative capitalconsidered by the sustainable development expert, is represented by::

• Formation of an economic, civil and cultural bridge, the largest in Egypt and the Middle East region, and giving an opportunity for investment there.
• Reducing traffic congestion, which causes complete paralysis of all Egyptian facilities, and has a significant impact on fuel consumption and time loss in crowded streets, in addition to harmful emissions and pollution.
• Reducing losses in the governorates of Greater Cairo (Cairo, Giza, and Qalyubia) due to overcrowding, which the latest statistics on overcrowding revealed amount to about $8 billion annually.
• Preserving the civilized splendor of Cairo, making use of it in the ideal manner that befits it, and relieving pressure on its historical buildings.

What is the Egyptian administrative capital?

• One of the sustainable smart cities, which was established by decree of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi No. 57 of 2016.
• It is about 60 km from Cairo to the east, and about 65 km from Suez to the west.
• It is planned to accommodate approximately 6.5 million people when its construction phases are fully completed.
• Its area, when completed, will be about 700 square kilometers (170,000 acres), provided that the implementation will take place in three phases..
• The area of ​​the first phase of the project is about 168 square kilometers (40,000 acres), which is almost half the area of ​​Cairo, which is about 90,000 acres..

Great strategic and economic importance

In turn, Mahmoud Dawood, a specialist in real estate development and sustainable cities, reveals the importance of moving to the New Administrative Capital, by saying:

• “The transfer of government district employees to work from the ministries’ headquarters is a major event, indicating the imminent opening of this project, which is one of the most important sustainable urban development projects in Egypt, Africa and the Middle East.”
• “Official statistics monitored a significant doubling in the population of Cairo, equivalent to 680 percent, during the period between 1882 and 2017. During the last year, the population of the capital reached 24 million people, after it was only 353 thousand people at the time of the 1882 census.” .

• “This huge population growth in the capital has put pressure on all kinds of available facilities.”
• “The metro has an average crowding rate per trip of 1,494 passengers, at a rate of 10.9 citizens for each available seat, while crowding on buses of the Public Transport Authority, an average of 141 passengers per bus during one session.”
• For these reasons, Egypt was keen to support the construction of new cities throughout the country, to be a natural extension of the ancient cities existing around the valley and the delta.

new cities

With regard to the new cities that have been developed in Egypt, to reduce the pressure of the population on certain specific areas, the expert who specializes in the file of real estate development and sustainable cities says in his interview with “Sky News Arabia”:

• The number of new cities in the country has doubled, reaching 50 new cities by 2020.
• Cairo received special attention in this file, due to the presence of an estimated quarter of the Egyptian population within its scope, so attention was paid to the development of existing new urban communities, such as the cities of Sixth of October, Sheikh Zayed, Badr, Al Shorouk, and New Cairo..
• A new city was considered to be the seat of the Egyptian government, to solve the problem of the concentration of government headquarters within the old downtown area of ​​Cairo, which indirectly causes an increase in overcrowding..
• The government neighborhood in the New Administrative Capital is the most prominent among all the neighborhoods and regions of the city, as it is located on an area of ​​approximately 150 acres, and contains 10 ministerial complexes that serve 34 different ministries..

• The new administrative capital also gained its strategic and economic importance, from being the first Egyptian city to operate with fully smart systems at the level of government administration. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has been studying the work requirements of most government agencies, to help them transform those businesses towards the concept of digitization..
• The Egyptian government has taken care of training and qualifying the human element in the government sector, and they are the employees whose work will be transferred to the Administrative Capital successively, so that they are ready to deal with the modern technologies that will be available in their hands..

Supporting development opportunities for Sinai

For his part, the former dean of the Faculty of Commerce at Beni Suef University, Dr. Osama Abdel Sadiq, says, “The transfer of the ministries’ employees to work in the headquarters of the government district in the New Administrative Capital will be reflected in all the neighboring areas, which will have a positive dimension on increasing the investment value of those areas.”“.

And he added to “Sky News Arabia”: “The decision to transfer employees will increase the turnout of citizens wishing to buy and invest in real estate during the coming period, as the new administrative capital project has become a reality and is no longer just a dream, which will also have strong economic repercussions on sales, whether Within the capital or nearby areas, such as the city of Ain Sukhna.

The founder of the Institute for Small and Medium Enterprises Studies at Beni Suef University believes that “the new administrative capital will be connected to a network of transportation with the surrounding cities, to facilitate transportation to it and link it to neighboring cities, in addition to supporting development opportunities for the Sinai region.”

And he continues in this regard: “This will be considered a link linking the entire east of Cairo and bringing development to Sinai, since the state’s plan for the development of Sinai starts from the new administrative capital.”.