CAIRO, April 19, 2018 (MENA) - Prime Minister Sherif Ismail held a meeting Thursday with Planning, Follow-up and Administrative Reform Minister Hala el Saed to discuss upgrading services to improve livelihoods and the quality of life for citizens. During the meeting which was attended by senior cadres of Saed's ministry, she briefed the premier on the measures taken so far to improve public services and utilities and advance the national economic, social and environmental development process. Ismail gave directives to pay special attention to the Upper Egyptian and border governorates via encouraging investments directed to drinking water, sanitation, electricity and road projects. Saed said that investments in the Upper Egyptian governorates under the next national plan will cost EGP 10 billion. The premier stressed the importance of following up growth in the industrial sector because it is one of the vital sectors that provide job opportunities and pushes forward the the economic and social development wheel.