Ministry of Municipality

Ministry of Municipality

Overview:

Ministry of Municipality is a service Ministry directly related to the general public, in order to meet the many requirements of their daily life, and contribute through its subsidiary departments, municipalities and centers, to the rapid development of the State of Qatar. This is in line with Qatar National Vision 2030, that aims to place the country among the developed countries, based on the pillars of human development, economic, social and environmental development.

The Ministry is vested with the areas of Municipal Affairs and Urban Planning, and responsible for preparation of urban plans at the State level, and supervising its implementation in coordination with the concerned authorities, land surveying and subdivisions, preparation of cadastral maps of the State of Qatar, management of State properties, provision & Allocation of lands for the needs of government authorities, reviewing the recommendations of the Central Municipal Council and taking relevant adequate decisions, land expropriation & temporary Land Acquisition for the public interest, suggestion and implementation of municipal projects including buildings, gardens, parks and landscaping plantations, besides monitoring buildings construction and buildings control, preparation and implementation of systems and programs for public cleansing, and supervising the practice of engineering professions, and the cemeteries, and providing honoring tributes to the deceased.

The Ministry of Municipality is responsible for achieving a number of objectives, foremost of which is the development of agricultural, water, animal and fish resources in order to achieve sustainable development, and to propose and implement policies necessary to achieve food security and supervise strategic food stocks. The Ministry is working under the guidance of His Excellency the Minister of Municipality, on the dissemination of providing electronic services to the public, in a bid to eliminate the paperwork, which will be replaced by the e-government portal of the State of Qatar.

The First establishment of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs in the State of Qatar was in 1972, under Decree by Law No. (24), which has defined the responsibilities of the Ministry and its affiliate Departments.

Thereafter, these responsibilities had been amended in 1990, following the cancellation of the Ministry of Industry and Agriculture, and the addition of the agricultural affairs to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, thence re-named the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture (at a time).

Later on, these responsibilities were subsequently modified following the merger of the Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture under the Decree by Law No. (20) of 1993, on the organization of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture and defining its responsibilities. The Public Works responsibilities has also been added to the responsibilities of this Ministry.

In 2004, Law No. (1) on the establishment of the Public Works Authority, followed by the Law No. 15 of 2004 on the establishment of the Urban Planning & Development Authority, and thus the responsibilities of the Ministry have been limited to the municipal and agricultural affairs.  The Ministry had been re-organized and the its responsibilities defined under the Law No. (23) of 2005.

On 05/04/2009, the Emiri Decision No. (16) of 2009, on the specification of   the functions of the Ministries, including the authorities of the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, has been issued. 

On 27/01/2016, the Emiri Decision No. (5) of 2016, on the Organization Chart for the Ministry of Municipality and Environment, has been issued. 

On 28/2/2019, Emiri Decision No. (11) of 2019 was issued regarding the organizational structure of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment, which included a number of amendments, most notably the addition of an Assistant Undersecretary for Municipal Affairs, and the addition of a number of departments: food security, projects and development, service Customers, unified call center, training.

On 2021/10/19, the Emiri Decision No. (57) of 2021 on the specification of the functions of the Ministries, including the authorities of the Ministry of Municipality, has been issued.

Resources:

Ministry of Municipality website - Qatar

Facebook of the Ministry 

Lusail news website

municipality's Instagram

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