Engineer Arnous in a meeting at the Ministry of Industry: setting priorities to continue production and embodying the slogan (hope for work) on the ground

On May 30th Prime Minister Engineer Hussein Arnous chaired a meeting at the Ministry of Industry focused on the situation of the industrial public sector and ways to enhanceits work. 

Eng. Arnous stressed the importance of precisely setting priorities and embodying the slogan “hope for work” on the ground, making every possible effort to raise production capacity, using human , material and financial resources in all industrial and reducing production costs, limiting waste of time, reducing import and creating an intellectual and productive base that would be a starting point for all industrial public sector facilities. 

Eng. Arnous called for the establishment of specialized units that include qualitative competencies in each plant and factory whose mission is to find solutions to the various obstacles to the production process, to place the right people in the administrative, to take the right decisions based on the interest of the homeland and the citizen, and to be keen on building an integrated national industrial sector between the public and private sectors. 

Eng. Arnous pointed to the need to train and qualify the working staff and support the institutions of the Ministry of Industry with quality employment. 

The Minister of Industry, Ziad Sabbagh, gave a presentation on the situation of the Syrian industry in the public and private sectors, the ministry’s economic indicators, and the status of employment in it. 

The participants in the meeting stressed the importance of developing specific plans that can be tracked and measured according to specific time programs in relation to production and marketing ratios. 

They pointed to the great opportunities provided by the new investment law for the private sector to start work and the necessity of setting the industrial investment map to come up with a time-bound program for the number and types of establishments to be implemented. 

The Ministry of Industry was also tasked with submitting a traceability report of the outcome of the meeting within a maximum period of one month to indicate the rates of achievement. 

Inas Abdulkareem