Damascus-SANA
Today, the People’s Assembly’s Budget and Accounts Committee discussed the investment budget for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and its affiliates for the year 2022, estimated at 86 billion and 143 million and 950 thousand Syrian pounds.
The interventions of the committee members focused on issues related to the work of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Planning and International Cooperation Commission, the Central Bureau of Statistics, the Central Organization for Financial Control, the Central Commission for Oversight and Inspection, the Syrian Investment Commission, the Central Bank of Syria, and the rates of implementation of investment projects belonging to them.
Some members called for a greater role to obtain accurate data and figures for their importance and economic implications, which will benefit society and develop its performance, and to move towards automation as an urgent necessity that contributes to reducing corruption, focusing on scientific research, securing favorable conditions for investment, training and qualifying manpower, giving facilities to investors and simplifying procedures They focus on future plans, speed up the implementation of projects, combat administrative slack, solve problems related to old laws, continue controlling the exchange rate, and shift towards a comprehensive banking system.
Some members suggested raising the retirement age for inspectors, especially the distinguished among them, simplifying procedures and speeding up the completion of inspection cases, working on preventive inspections to avoid damage to public money, raising implementation rates in residential projects, and shifting from working as administrative institutions to investment through investment in science.
In response to the members’ interventions between the Director General of the Syrian Investment Authority, Madian Diab, that there are a number of projects planned to be completed next year, including the investor service center, automating the work of all its participants, preparing an investment map, identifying projects needed by the agricultural and industrial sectors, the renewable energy sector, technical connectivity, and creating an electronic platform in cooperation With the Ministry of Communications to direct the investment as required.
In turn, the Director of the Central Bureau of Statistics, Dr. Ihsan Amer, explained that the office is working to complete the deficiencies related to its work and enhance the positive aspects that exist, and it presents the statistical figure in cooperation with other public sector agencies, explaining that as a result of the crisis and war conditions, a number of planned surveys have been postponed.
For his part, Dr. Fadi Khalil, Chairman of the Planning and International Cooperation Authority, indicated the need to give priority to the productive sectors, rehabilitate some of the sub-departments in the governorates, and work to complete the work automation project in the authority after improving conditions.
Muhannad Suleiman - Malik Abdo
