Over 800 job opportunities likely in governorates

Muscat: More than 800 job opportunities are expected at the projects that have been opened recently in various governorates of the Sultanate, the Senior Director of Economic Diversification Investments at the Oman Investment Authority, said.

Talal bin Issa Al Harrasi, the Senior Director of Economic Diversification Investments at the Oman Investment Authority, said to Shabiba Radio, said that according to the statement issued by the authority, it is expected to produce 860 direct and indirect job opportunities from the recently opened projects, in addition to empowering small and medium enterprises, and as it is known, any project opened anywhere there will be other projects such as supporting and supportive projects.

Therefore, any large project will promote the establishment of other supporting and supportive projects around it, and this in turn will create other job opportunities more than what has been announced.

He explained that the statement is about the projects that have been opened in the various governorates of the Sultanate, which include several regions and wilayats, including Sohar, Salalah, Duqm, Ibri, Al Jabal Al Akhdar and the Governorate of Muscat which are distributed over a range of investment sectors, including energy, public services, tourism development, industry, logistics, food security and mining.”

He pointed out that the investment focuses on 10 sectors. In addition to the aforementioned sectors, there are financial services, investment and aviation services sectors.

On the focus of the tenth five-year plan on the sectors of economic diversification and the role of the Omani Investment Authority in supporting these sectors recognized in the plan; Al Harrasi stressed that the agency’s plan is in line with the Sultanate’s five-year plan, Oman’s future vision, and economic diversification in the Sultanate.

About the Authority’s keenness on the presence and increase of the local added value from the projects that have been announced; Al Harrasi explained that the Oman Investment Authority has evidence and these guides are applied to various and all of the authority’s companies, and they are evidence in relation to the local added value, including the focus on supporting small and medium enterprises in a percentage of projects, in addition to focusing on Omanization in jobs and other pillars related to local added value.