Morocco Spends Nearly $100 Million on Compulsory Military Service Program

Speaking in parliament during the presentation of the budget of his department, the delegate minister in charge of national defense administration, Abdellatif Loudiyi, provided details of the direct expenses incurred in this context of the operation.

According to the official, the reception and training of the 20,000 conscripts for the 37th intake of military service cost 960 million dirhams. More precisely, this budget was used for the equipment and maintenance of the preparation of the training infrastructures of the conscripts’ training centers.

Thanks to this amount, the ministry also proceeded to appoint the supervisory staff in charge of receiving the conscripts, the implementation of a training program for the supervisors, the equipment of the units in the South Zone for the upgrading of the training infrastructures of the conscripts and finally the equipment of special units with educational tools.

The objective of the operation, recalled the minister, was to train and train the young conscripts, in order to provide them with the means for professional and social inclusion.