Bureaucracy obstructs the dreams of investors in Hurghada Video
Issuing licenses is a tormenting journey between Cairo and Luxor... amid complex procedures
Investors: The sum of the combined rental value has exhausted us financially..and we want to pay month by month. Rain penetrated the ceiling of factories inside..water surrounded us outside.Abu Zaid: Formation of a crisis committee to find out all problems and obstacles
Raising the demands of investors to the higher leaders... to keep the production wheel spinning.
These investors encountered a sterile bureaucracy and complicated procedures on the part of some employees of the Industrial Development Authority.. the lack of commitment to the time specified for providing services and the lack of credibility of the specifications presented by the Industrial Development Authority to investors.. with financial exhaustion and exhaustion of investors.. the investors said that they suffer greatly in completing the procedures and clearing the required papers. .. With their demand to pay the sums of rent collected .. Unfortunately, we have been financially drained and we no longer have the funds to continue the activity.
He added that we suffer from going to Cairo and Luxor to complete the procedures and staying there for days..and this hinders the wheel of production..explaining that we are surprised by daily decisions that put pressure on investors psychologically and nervously and not create an environment that attracts investment and production. in development and impede the wheel of production.
Sally Mohamed Ibrahim, "Chairman of the Food Packaging Factory, Unit 135 in Hurghada Complex," says that based on the directives of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to encourage small and medium industries, we applied for the project and the unit was received on 12/12/2021. I was surprised by two letters from the Industrial Development Authority canceling the allocation due to the lack of a license Employment and an industrial register, knowing that I obtained the operating license from June 2021.. I wondered: How do I extract the industrial register when I was not producing or working. Sally confirmed that despite all the obstacles and bureaucracy in completing the procedures, I prepared the factory from the inside with the health requirements followed.. and so far they refuse to extract the industrial registry until the payment of sums that were not notified to us on time. The last 26 thousand pounds to pay the rent. I wondered: How do I pay maintenance and cleaning... and the factory wasn't working yet?! She added that I was supposed to be informed of the payment of the amounts month by month... not to collect them for six months at once... The strange thing is that they demand payment immediately, or stop the factory paper, disabling everything.
I wondered: Why do I pay the rent in advance.. I am supposed to pay month by month.. Unfortunately, when I extracted the industrial register, they withheld the committee to make the register until payment.. I don’t know.. Will I pay the value of extracting the industrial register.. or the amount of the rental value.. Or the 17,000 pounds for services.. I spent financially on preparing the place from health requirements.. and the requirements of a body that I implement in the matter and I did not object to that for my own benefit and the public interest so that I could manufacture a product that competes in the market.. However, red tape and bureaucracy impede our efforts and kill our hopes. She explained that if the installation of ceramics, sewage, and waxing of equipment had been carried out, there would have been a catastrophe with rainwater entering the food products because the external ground level is higher than the factory level, allowing rainwater to enter the factory, as happened with the rest of the other investors.
Jacqueline Wehbe says, "Owner of Factory No. 1 of various gypsum works in the area of the factories complex in Hurghada."
She confirmed: We finished the financing paper from the bank and obtained the funds with the help of the Project Development Authority. We started work last November and brought machines, equipment, materials and labor, but we did not work in the entire production lines.. She explained that the nature of our work is that we make molds to put the product in, where we make three products that need molds. A lot.. It took 45 days to prepare it. Then I was surprised by my claim of 75 thousand pounds.. and I wondered: How and most of the loan amounts I spent in preparing the place.. Even the number of workers is incomplete.. and I work with my own hands because of my financial inability to employ my workers.
She added: The sad thing is that when any problem occurs, one must go to Cairo, despite the presence of an office for the Industrial Development Authority in the governorate..but not the owner..and we travel 500 kilometers to Cairo one way and the same way back, which results in wasting time, effort and money. She added: More than two months ago, I modified the commercial name in Cairo.. I did not ask for anything other than what is in the operating license.
She confirmed: I was surprised that they were asking us to pay 45 thousand pounds and pay it immediately.. I am supposed to pay month by month and be held accountable from the time of operation.
Wasfi Aziz Fakhry, "the owner of Unit No. 57 and 58," said I applied and received the assignment "5-8", and after a week of receiving it, I applied for a replacement to the authority's official in Hurghada, and after a month and a half, they asked me for the output of the equipment, the engineering drawing, and the dimensions of the place.. After all this, the commission refused on the pretext that the drawing The engineering is a mistake even though he is from a union, sealed and approved engineering consultant.. They argue that in width, and if so, the door would be parallel to the core.. but the longitudinal drawing means the door is opposite to the door.. and I am obligated to make a winch where I work in iron with weights of two tons and 3 tons or Clark removes the weights.. explaining If the width is, we will not be able to walk.. and I have 12 stomachs.. but if the length is left and right and the road is left and the Clark is walking. He pointed out that if the equipment was crosswise, it would be in the middle of the unit and the Clark would not be able to move, in addition to endangering the workers' lives.
According to "Alia Murzuq Nour, owner of Unit No. 136, a food product, white honey and molasses": I received the unit about 3 months ago.. and began to proceed with the procedures for clearing paper..but a sterile bureaucracy ran into..and the procedures are very complicated..we go to Cairo to work for a founding company. We stay 15 days, including 3 founding days, and then 10 days to make the register, and then we receive the paper.. This is the first step.. Then comes the second step.. It is to extract the tax card from Luxor because the taxes of Hurghada in Luxor Governorate.. He wondered: How to extract an industrial register from Cairo.. The tax card is from Luxor, and I live in Hurghada. And he continues: I went to Luxor and was surprised by the system being broken... so I sat for 15 days... and then received the tax card within 45 days. He asked: Where are these employees from the presidential initiative “Your Factory is Ready” with the license.. And where is the campaign of the Ministry of Industry?! It took two months for me to receive the commercial register and the tax card.. He explained that I applied to the Federation of Industries a month ago until now, unfortunately, I did not get anything.
He confirmed that the unit consists of four walls..and the prices of utilities have been charged to the unit. He added: They rejected a food approach saying that the factory's products conform to health requirements.. He added: I want a food product that benefits the consumer and does not have any damages.. What happens against investment. And the development that the state is strongly seeking. Ayoub Shaker, “the owner of unit No. 35-36 in the factories complex in Hurghada, industrial furniture, door and window,” stressed that there are no pricing criteria for every proposal of the terms of reference, whether for rent or ownership.. He explained that the first proposal was the unit price of 3 million and 200 thousand pounds. .. And the second offering is two million and 800 thousand pounds.. He added: We demand a period to collect the rent that includes services because we are waiting for financing, the arrival of equipment and the completion of papers, whether industrial registry or licenses. The level of the floors outside the factory is higher than the level inside, when.. Unfortunately, the roof of the factory is not insulated against moisture and water. Ahmed Abdel Mureed, "the youngest investor in the factories complex in Hurghada and owner of a metal furniture factory" confirmed that he demands the inclusion of the rear unit for him to expand the work, also demanding ownership. units so that work and production go to the fullest.
For his part, Dr. Ahmed Abu Zeid, a member of the Supreme Authority and Secretary-General of the Egyptian Freedom Party in the Red Sea, stressed that the party pays great attention to small and large investors, considering that investment is one of the main pillars of the state in achieving the economic renaissance that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi puts at the forefront of work priorities.
He added: As soon as we received the complaints of investors in the Red Sea Industries Complex, a crisis committee was formed to find out all the problems and obstacles faced by investors, which in turn impede the desired economic development wheel. Party Chairman and Chairman of Parliament's Industry Committee - A report on those problems and obstacles was submitted to him, who in turn promised to work on finding serious solutions to them.
Meanwhile, MP Ahmed Muhanna, deputy head of the party and deputy manpower committee in Parliament, set an urgent date to meet the delegation of Red Sea investors to listen to their demands and raise them to the highest levels.
Bureaucracy impedes investors' dreams.. in Hurghada
Bureaucracy impedes investors' dreams.. in Hurghada
Bureaucracy impedes investors' dreams.. in Hurghada
Bureaucracy impedes investors' dreams.. in Hurghada
Bureaucracy impedes investors' dreams.. in Hurghada
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