Damascus countryside-SANA
Today, Eng. Hussein Arnous, Prime Minister of the Caretaker Government, chaired a meeting in the administration building of Adra Industrial City in Damascus countryside, focusing on the state's support for industrial cities and industrialists and providing facilities in order to increase production and secure various commodities that the local market needs and meet the needs of citizens.
Engineer Arnous stressed the need to expand the industrial city in Adra to become a large industrial complex and take advantage of its geographical location close to Damascus and international roads and the importance of joint work between the concerned government agencies and economic and industrial activities to solve the obstacles and difficulties that hinder the progress of work in the industrial cities and find appropriate solutions to them and move towards a better reality .
The Prime Minister pointed out the need to move towards establishing investments for alternative energies in Adra Industrial City to be a nucleus for moving to advanced stages and applying the experience in other industrial cities, explaining that providing electricity through alternative energies for industrial cities is on the government's priority list and that the best solution to the current electricity situation is to launch projects Renewable energies to meet the requirements of work and production in cities and industrial areas and to contribute to securing additional quantities of electrical power for residential areas
He explained that the government supports investment in renewable energies by granting loans that are accompanied by percentages of completion and implementation according to specific programs and time plans, and periodic follow-up of work stages with the aim of drawing a clear path that puts investment into practice, noting that the next stage is titled work, production and competition between industrial cities for production and operation of factories. Which is concerned with securing job opportunities and providing various types of materials in the local market.
Engineer Arnous stressed the importance of securing housing for workers in the industrial city in Adra, providing infrastructure and services, and achieving stability for its workers, as well as focusing on training and rehabilitation and establishing an institute specialized in training graduates of engineering and applied universities to be able to enter the labor market.
The interventions during the meeting focused on the necessity of coordinating with the Ministry of Industry to attract and rehabilitate students, establish practical courses within the laboratories, study the formation of a partnership for the construction of a residential city, involve industrialists in making decisions related to their work, reconsider decisions to rationalize import, establish a service company to serve workers in the city, and identify the reasons that prevent industrial establishments. Those suspended from continuing work, treating their situation, and providing electricity to water pumps serving the industrial city.
The meeting was attended by Minister of Industry Ziad Sabbagh, Minister of Electricity Engineer Ghassan Al-Zamil in the caretaker government, Governor of Damascus Countryside, Engineer Moataz Abu Al-Nasr Jamran, and President of the Chamber of Industry in Damascus and its countryside, Samer Al-Dibs.
After the meeting, Eng. Arnous launched the renewable energy project to produce 110 megawatts in the industrial city of Adra, stressing that this project has begun and will not stop until its full completion and the government will provide all support for it.
In a statement to reporters, Engineer Arnous said that the visit to the industrial city came to meet with the industrialists in the presence of the Chamber of Industry and to listen to their requirements and the obstacles they face and ways to solve them, noting that the meeting was a useful frankness session during which the industrialists expressed their conviction that they would be assistants in overcoming a large part of these Obstacles with the help of the government, which will provide facilities and procedures. We discussed the issue of securing production requirements and loans for troubled projects and how to make banks a basic supporter of production operations, and we agreed on all these procedures.
Engineer Arnous explained that there is a shortage of electrical energy and we have no solution except for alternative energies, which are the fastest. Today, we started in the industrial city of Adra with a project of 110 megawatts in stages, as well as in the industrial city of Hasiya. There is a tendency to find a site for solar energy and in Aleppo we started months ago and today we have 42 megawatts Underway.
As for small projects, Eng. Arnous stressed the importance of these projects, pointing to the Microfinance Institutions Law and the Loan Risk Guarantee Corporation, explaining that there will be a meeting next Thursday on this topic to study how to speed it up.. All the infrastructure has become available to the banks and the Loan Guarantee Corporation guarantees 75 percent of the loan, and this The issue requires everyone’s cooperation to spread the culture of implementing small projects and what facilities exist. For companies, anyone who wants to establish a company, even if it is small, can create this company in less than a week, and within days we will put on the communication platforms and on the Cabinet website the procedures related to this topic .