Muscat, October 18: More than 1,400 Omani youngsters will receive training in various trades under agreements signed here by the government with local institutes.
They will be trained for administrative and technical jobs and as equipment operators, typists, printers, hairdressers and beauticians.
The RO3.6 million deals were inked on behalf of the government by Manpower Minister Shaikh Abdullah bin Nassir Al Bakri.
A total of 1,496 people have been chosen for the training, Hamad bin Khamis Al Amri, Under-secretary for Technical Education and Vocational Training at the ministry, told reporters. The professions had been selected on the basis of market requirements, he added.
Amri said that the agreements were part of the ministry’s broad objective of developing human resources and “enabling the national manpower to contribute to the development of the Sultanate.” Similar pacts earlier had succeeded in providing hundreds of jobs for nationals, especially secondary school graduates, he added.
More such agreements would be signed before the end of the year, he said, adding that the ministry’s effort to link training to employment was a result of recommendations made by a series of ‘National Employment Seminars’ held in the past years.
–Agencies