Damascus-SANA
The Prime Minister, Engineer Hussein Arnous, stressed the importance of the role played by the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment in providing services to citizens through provincial councils, cities, towns, administrative units, internal transport directorates and real estate interests, pointing out that the ministry’s structures and cadres are the main link between state institutions and citizens and the most able to Monitoring and following up the extent of citizens' satisfaction with the level of services provided, as well as monitoring feedback on the level of performance.
Arnous, while chairing a meeting today at the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment, called for field follow-up of the work of administrative units and the reality of physical and financial implementation, strengthening their role in the field of local development, setting goals and indicators to measure performance, linking priorities to specific work contents and translating them on the ground, and expanding the participation of the local community in micro-projects. and small, given that the local economy is the basic core of national economic activity.
The Prime Minister stressed that the industrial cities enjoy full support as they play an important role in achieving economic and societal development, and the government pays great attention to the industrial sector as a reliable development lever in the next stage, explaining that strengthening the firefighting sector with mechanisms and human cadres is one of the priorities of work in the next year’s budget, and it is important That the license of any industrial facility is conditional on securing firefighting mechanisms for it.
Engineer Arnous pointed out that the renewal of the internal transport fleet is also a priority in order to enable this sector to provide mass transport services in the best possible way, as work is currently being done to secure 500 new buses, and it is necessary to encourage partnership in this field, pointing to the need to benefit from the waste sector and launch projects To address it in partnership with the private sector to benefit from it in multiple sectors and turn this sector into a source of income.
Engineer Arnous stressed the importance of linking the establishment of industrial projects and the investment of underground resources on the one hand, and the preservation of the environment and forest areas on the other hand, in addition to preventing the construction of any new building violations in all administrative units and removing existing and under construction violations in accordance with the laws and regulations in force, indicating the importance of continuing to automate real estate interests. To simplify the services provided to citizens and the need for the governorates to be a key partner in implementing the decisions related to the hala markets and the expansion of popular markets, in addition to their participation in monitoring markets, controlling prices, and reducing intermediate links to a minimum to preserve the interests of producers and consumers.
For his part, Eng. Hussein Makhlouf, Minister of Local Administration and Environment, gave a presentation that included the axes of the ministry’s work and its future plan in the areas of administrative reform, local councils, legislation, service, financial and development reality, the reality of industrial cities and the creation of citizen service centers.
Minister Makhlouf indicated that priority has been given to allocating dividers in industrial and craft zones for projects to replace imports, pointing out that 17 billion Syrian pounds were allocated in the ministry’s budget in 2021 for the purchase of internal transport buses, and 105 buses damaged by terrorist attacks were rehabilitated and put into service.
The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the Planning and International Cooperation Authority, Dr. Imad Sabouni, the Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Dr. Qais Khader, the assistants of the Minister of Local Administration and the directors of institutions and bodies affiliated with the Ministry.
In a statement to SANA’s delegate, Director of the Industrial City in Sheikh Najjar in Aleppo, Engineer Hazem Ajjan, that the city is moving towards projects that work on renewable energies and is in the process of establishing a residential suburb belonging to it on an area of 58 hectares. He pointed out that there is a study to automate the tax system, which was launched from the industrial cities.
The Director of the Industrial City in Hisya, Dr. Eng. Ghassan Mansour, confirmed in a similar statement that the geographical location of Hisya is attractive to investment, in addition to the facilities provided by the city administration to industrialists, such as the investor receiving his division and starting construction and investment after paying only 25 percent of its value, pointing out that there are 40 new projects proposed for investment in the cities. industrial.
With regard to the industrial city in Deir ez-Zor, its director, Eng. Muhammad Sab’ al-Dair, explained that work is underway to restructure the public administration, activate its departments, departments and directorates, and secure important data for investors that have been sabotaged by terrorism in order to preserve their rights.
Director General of Real Estate Interests, Engineer Waddah Qatmawi, confirmed that there is a plan to re-launch the real estate interests automation project, which was started in 2014 to automate real estate sheets and put them within the electronic service and create a data bank that can be accessed from anywhere and at any time in a way that facilitates and simplifies procedures for the citizen .
Qatmawi pointed out that 737 million pounds have been collected as fees for real estate services since the implementation of Law No. 17 of 2021 last May, indicating that the increase in revenues is positively reflected on the provision of services and the revenues of the state’s public treasury.
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