The project, extending over 200 hectares, carries a strong social impact that reflects the constant care given by the Sovereign to poorest social categories and permanent will to provide them better living conditions and help them have access to basic services and community social facilities in total equality and dignity.
Worth 300 million Dirhams in investments, the project will be carried out in two phases in partnership between the Interior ministry's department of local councils, the ministry of housing and urban policy, the Grand Casablanca region, the prefectoral council and the city council of Casablanca.
It consists in generalizing the road network in the target areas, consolidating and modernizing drinking water, electricity, liquid sanitation and public lighting grids, and building 22 community public facilities, with the aim of improving inhabitants health conditions, improving the city's attractiveness, promoting the security of persons and property, protecting the environment, and, hence, securing lasting and coherent social-economic development for the entire region.
The first phase of this operation is carried out as part of the 2014-2015 Greater Casablanca region priority upgrading programme which provides for restructuring 17 other under-equipped neighborhoods in the Great Casablanca region with a total budget of 620 million dirhams.
The second phase, to be carried out under the 2015-2020 Great Casablanca Region Development Plan, concerns 72 under-equipped neighborhoods.
Alongside this global restructuring programme, worth 2.016 billion dirhams, and with the aim of securing optimal integration of under-equipped neighborhoods in the urban zone, the 2015-2020 Great Casablanca Region Development Plan also features the construction of about forty public facilities, worth 200 million dirhams.
These projects are in line with the objectives of the 2015-2020 Great Casablanca Region Development Plan launched last September by HM the King and geared to improving the living condition of the Casablanca inhabitants and preserving the city's environment and identity.