Prince Mishaal bin Abdullah, Makkah governor and chairman of the Makkah Provincial Council, recently asked the follow-up committee to submit its observations for the delays in the completion of the projects in the region worth SR16 billion.

The governor demanded that quarterly reports be submitted to him directly on matters discussed between the committee, the authorities and the contractors in addition to the submission of weekly reports on the work of field teams.

Fuad Ghazali, adviser to the council and chairman of the projects committee, was quoted as saying by local media that his committee had prepared the first quarterly report to be submitted to the governor.

“Prince Mishaal has been calling for an investigation into the facts since the start of the committee’s work last month and meetings with the parties stalling the projects including government and private bodies, contractors and consulting engineers,” he said.

The aim, he added, is to push forward the work of completion on the stalled projects, reduce the rate of stumbling and find solutions to the problems hindering several giant and pivotal projects.

Elaborating on the nature of the projects monitored by the committee, he said: “We have classified the stalled projects into three categories according to the reasons for delay, the total ratio of delay in the projects currently being implemented and those endorsed for implementation in this year’s fiscal budget.”

He revealed that the most important stalled project in the region is the western part of the Second Ring Road, a part of the King Abdullah development project for Makkah with a value of SR16 billion.

He said the committee found that the reason for the delay was steps to move the service lanes. “This compelled us to hold an extraordinary meeting with the municipality, the National Water Company and the Saudi Electricity Company with contractors and consultant engineers in attendance to see how the lanes could be moved,” he added.

The team of the follow-up committee inspected two projects of the Ministry of Education, the schools’ complex in the Sharaei plan and other educational projects in the residential neighborhood.