HRH Crown Prince Chairs EDB Meeting
His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and the Economic Development Board (EDB) Chairman today highlighted the importance of consolidating the efforts aiming to upgrade education and training in the kingdom in order to increase the citizens’ productivity and competitiveness, stressing that the focus should be on improving the quality of education and training in order to meet the labour market’s needs.
Chairing the EDB meeting at Al Riffa Palace, in the presence of Deputy Premier Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa and the President of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sport Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, HRH Crown Prince urged all ministries and state bodies concerned with improving education and training to cooperate in order to create more opportunities for the citizens through providing them with science and knowledge so as to be able to get qualitative jobs in line with the goals set by the Economic Vision, 2030 aiming to secure a better standard of living for Bahrainis.
“Developing the capabilities and skills of the Bahraini competencies will entitle them to be the first choice of all establishments active in the kingdom, bring about sustainable growth and boost the labour market in the long run,” HRH Crown Prince said. During the same meeting, Labour Minister Dr.Majeed bin Mohsen Al Alawi staged a presentation on the Rehabilitation and Employment of University Graduates Project which started in 2009, indicating that more than 2000 graduate job-seekers have been employed so far and that the number of those who benefited from training opportunities exceeded 3000.
In this context, HRH Crown Prince expressed his thanks to the Labour Ministry and its affiliates for the tremendous efforts they exert in implementing the project and making it so successful, lauding the support provided by the institutions involved in it. Regarding the kingdom’s housing projects, Housing Minister Shaikh Ibrahim bin Khalifa Al Khalifa gave a presentation on what has been achieved so far concerning the projects currently carried out by the Ministry and those executed in partnership with the private sector as well as the ministry’s future plans and the proposed Real Estate Mortgage system.
In this context, HRH Crown Prince gave directives to carry on setting up housing projects that can appeal to the citizens, stressing that executing housing projects in conjunction with the private sector will enable the public sector to provide housing services for more citizens and reduce the waiting time. He also called upon the concerned sides to coordinate and study in details the proposed Real Estate Mortgage System in order to make it appropriate for the nature of the Bahraini economy and ensure that citizens make optimum benefit from it.
