Engineer Sherif El-Sherbiny, Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the New Urban Communities Authority, held an expanded meeting yesterday evening, with the Vice-Chairmen of the New Urban Communities Authority, and their assistants, to follow up on the work progress of the Authority and the new city agencies.
During the meeting, Engineer Sherif El-Sherbiny issued a package of assignments to officials of the New Urban Communities Authority, to push development rates in new cities, and to control and govern the procedures and work system within the various sectors of the Authority to facilitate and accelerate the pace of work, and facilitate procedures for customers, as well as working to maximize the revenues and financial resources of the Authority and its agencies. Through unconventional ideas and proper exploitation of the Authority’s available assets.
The Minister of Housing stressed the importance of concerted efforts, integration and participation in decision-making between the Authority’s sectors, working in a one-team spirit, accuracy and effectiveness in organizing and directing efforts made to achieve the maximum benefit from human resources, periodic and diligent follow-up of the status of project implementation and performance rates, and rapid monitoring of problems and challenges and developing Proposals to solve, overcome and deal with them.
The Minister also directed the necessity of developing a strategic vision for each sector of the Authority, preparing the second row and alternative cadres, escalating and upgrading competencies, relying on them, refining their skills and involving them in assuming responsibility, and creating departments for control, internal oversight and governance in city agencies, under the supervision of the Main Department of Oversight and Governance headed by the Authority.
Engineer Sherif El-Sherbiny stressed the importance of improving the level of operation and maintenance services for various projects in the new cities’ agencies, creating a qualitative shift and a radical change in the level of services, and preserving the urban character and aesthetic appearance of the new cities.
