Egypt PM pays a visit to governmental new capital’s governmental district

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli has visited the governmental district in the New Administrative Capital to check its construction works.

The prime minister started the visit with the Cabinet headquarters, which is a three-storey building. The ground floor includes security offices, ceremony hall, press center, museum, cafeteria, and training halls.

The first floor of the Cabinet headquarters houses administrative offices, a conference hall, and a service area. The second floor has meeting rooms, the PM’s office, and the headquarters of the Information and Decision Support Center. Each of the aforementioned floors has a VIP reception room.

The third floor encompasses the offices of the Cabinet’s Secretary General and general secretariat, the financial sector, the governmental relations sector, the conference center, the councils sector, the policies sector, the national projects sector, and the media office.

Located 45km (28 miles) east of Cairo over 170,000 feddans, the large-secal project – new capital city is part of the Egyptian government’s plan to expand urban areas to deal with the rapid population growth and improve the nation’s infrastructure.

The new city is set to be a 270-square-mile hub with 21 residential districts to accommodate five million people. It will feature 1,250 mosques and churches as well as 5,000-seat conference centre, nearly 2,000 schools and colleges, over 600 medical facilities, and a park that is projected to be the world’s largest.