Saudi government aims at improved lifestyle of the country. In a bid to improve country’s lifestyle, Saudi Arabia plans to spend 50 billion riyals ($13.33 billion) on an initiative by 2020. With this initiative, Saudi government targets promotion of entertainment, health, sports and education.
Private sector will be mainly benefited by this big spending. The spending also supports the 2030 Vision which aims at strengthening the role of the private sector.
The initiative is a part of a modernizing drive lead by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. On Thursday, an event held in Riyadh where Ahmed al-Khatib, chairman of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA), told that the undertaken program is called Quality of Life.
Saudi Arabia has undergone many changes like holding concerts and opening cinemas in recent months. Such kind of moves in the deeply conservative Muslim kingdom are proof of progress spearheaded by Prince Mohammed.
Under the Quality of life programme, Saudi govt should generate 300,000 jobs by 2020. Most of these jobs will come under the General Sports Authority. He also told that the initiatives will cost a total of 50bn riyals, with government spending of around 60 percent, with 40 percent from the private sector.
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At the event, Khatib also listed a water park,with three theme parks, museums and some more cinemas as projects in the initiative.
Saudi Arabia has undergone many changes like holding concerts and opening cinemas in recent months. Such kind of moves in the deeply conservative Muslim kingdom are proof of progress spearheaded by Prince Mohammed.
Strict social customs of the kingdom accompanied by rapid development created a nation in which community is highly valued but opportunities for public gathering are really scarce with higher obesity rates.
With Saudi citizens having no vote, falling oil income means economic horizons may contract in future years. That’s why, improving the quality of life is as important for ensuring political stability.
The kingdom get also urged by International human rights groups to improve its treatment of human rights advocates, and stop executions as well as cancel its pervasive system of male guardianship.
