King enquires about integrated development projects north

King Mohammed VI enquired Tuesday about various integrated development projects for the northern province of Tetouan and the neighboring prefecture of Mdieq-Fnideq.

    About $ 44.8mln will be earmarked for this project - part of the second phase of the National Program of Rural Roads (PNRR II).

    The government is hoping this project will have a positive socio-economic impact on the region, as it will open up 21 communes accounting for 50,000 inhabitants. It will raise to 70% the accessibility of the rural population to the national road grid by 2012.

    The monarch also enquired about the project to upgrade under-equipped neighborhoods of the municipality of Oued Laou.

    The program is due to be finalized in 2011. Its first phase includes seven neighborhoods, and aims for overcoming a number of constraints related mainly to the poor basic equipment, and guaranteeing a better use of the potentials of the municipality especially in terms of tourism, fisheries and agriculture.

    A project for the urban upscale of Tetouan was also presented to the king. It concerns developing the road linking Tetouan to neighboring Martil, building a modern market, developing two avenues…

    Concerning the municipality of Martil, it will benefit from an integrated development project worth almost a million dollars to embellish a number of the town's avenues and squares.

    The sovereign also enquired about a project to achieve the urban renewal of the Mediterranean prefecture of Mdieq-Fnideq (about 25km east of Tetouan) for the period 2008-2011, the goal being to better the life conditions of the population, boost the attractiveness of the Tamuda Bay tourist site, improve the quality of basic equipment and preserve the environment.

    The prefecture will also benefit from an integrated program for the period of 2009-2012 worth about 66.7 million dollars. In includes the achievement of 238 projects with social, cultural, sport and religious characters.

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