Damascus-SANA
The Cabinet has set the ministries’ work priorities for 2022 by focusing on improving the reality of the energy sector, introducing new electricity generation projects into service, continuing to secure oil derivatives, intensifying drilling and exploration work to introduce new wells, and increasing the quantities allocated for electric power generation.
The priorities set by the Council in its weekly session today, headed by Engineer Hussein Arnous, also included the completion of the investment map, the strengthening of investment work, the investment of national capital in production, and the strengthening of partnership with the private sector to rehabilitate destroyed companies and increase the production capacity of factories.
The priorities set by the council also included the completion of the national map for housing and housing, the increase in agricultural and industrial production, the continuation of the digital transformation project for government services, the introduction of the third operator for cellular services, the completion of organizational plans for a number of regions, the preparation of a national strategy for medium and small projects, the development of university admission mechanisms, and the completion of the Barada River depollution project.
The main addresses that will be implemented included providing everything necessary to activate agricultural and industrial production, increase the production capacity of mills, rehabilitate more silos, enhance Syria's intrusive role for trade, tighten market control, establish the billing system for actual use, and continue to implement the national project for administrative reform.
The priorities also included empowering administrative units, improving the level of their services, creating a tracking system for the work of public transportation, ensuring the provision of services, improving the reality of drinking water, developing tax administration, introducing a number of new irrigation projects into service, and increasing the areas planted with strategic crops.
Strengthening the air transport fleet and completing the electronic passport project were among the priorities determined by the Council as well, in addition to securing pharmaceutical and health needs, increasing interest in vocational technical education, developing the work of agricultural plant and animal production facilities, increasing consular services for Syrian citizens in the expatriate and automating the work of the institutions of the Ministry of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection .
Engineer Arnous stressed the importance of setting specific goals and the executive program to achieve them according to quantitative tracking indicators, which will reflect positively on the service and production reality and serve the citizens and improve their living conditions, stressing the need to make exceptional efforts and overcome any obstacles to revitalizing medium, small and micro enterprises, microfinance institutions and guaranteeing loan risks. It tracks projects under implementation from the public and private sectors and puts them into service according to the specified time schedules.
The Council of Ministers studied a draft legislative instrument that may raise the ceiling of the percentage of productive incentives for workers in public banks from 2.5 percent to 10 percent in order to preserve experienced cadres and banking competencies, and stressed the need to establish specific foundations and indicators for productive incentives in all ministries and public authorities.
The council agreed to grant Syrian Trade a financial advance of 4.3 billion pounds to secure subsidized sugar, and a memorandum by the Ministry of Water Resources on the results of the work of the committee formed to count the number of wells drilled and invested in the governorates.