The number of contracts approved by the Finance Ministry in the first quarter of the fiscal year 1431H-1432H amounted to 659 projects valued at SR 20.892 billion. These projects include 479 development projects at a cost of SR15.708 billion; projects of schools and educational utilities at a cost of SR 4.705 billion; 16 contracts at a cost of SR 541 million for implementing projects of hospitals and health utilities; 88 contracts for projects of water, dams and sewage at a total cost of SR3.559 billion as well as 48 contracts at a cost of SR 2.834 billion for other projects.