26/07/2016
Published: 23 June 2016 - 4 a.m.
By: Yasmin Al Heialy
Saudi's King Salman is scheduled to launch development projects worth $1.3bn (SAR5bn) during his second official visit to Madinah, since his ascension to the throne.
These include projects in the health, education, cultural and, electricity and water services fields, according to Saudi Gazette.
The king will launch a number of new projects in the Islamic University worth $224m (SAR843m), including sport halls, teaching staff housing, new buildings for the deanship for admission and registration, deanship of students affairs, laboratories for applied and scientific faculties, a building for Islamic Research Centre, a building for the faculty of Arabic language, several multi-story car park buildings, the university’s gates and fences, and development operations for the infrastructure.
The education projects, King Salman is expected to launch, are worth $91m (SAR341m), and include 45 new education buildings – 25 of which are education projects for boys at a cost of $46.3m (SAR174m) and 11 are education projects for girls at a cost of $20.5m (SAR77m).
Another three education projects are in Al-Hinakiyah, three in Wadi Al-Far’ governorate, six new education projects in Khaibar and five others in Badr