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Morocco: $ 6 billion allocated for developing rural areas

Friday, 07 January 2011 01:13

Morocco (Rabat) - Over 50 billion dirhams ($5.8 billion) were mobilized by the government over 2008-2010 to develop rural areas, State Secretary in charge of territorial development, Abdeslam Al Mesbahi, said on Wednesday.

Mesbahi told representatives that the development of rural areas is a state priority.

He pointed out that the Housing Ministry devoted the same programmes implemented in urban centers to rural areas, relating notably to housing, urban development and the fight against substandard housing.

These efforts add to rural development programmes, part of a national comprehensive strategy based on the Rural Development Fund, he said.

Mesbahi also highlighted the programmes and projects implemented within the framework of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH) in rural areas, and mountainous regions in particular, saying that a “quantitative leap” was witnessed in these regions with the launch of the national strategy to develop mountainous areas. (MAP)

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