| Shura meeting discusses issues of Omani sailors |
MUSCAT The Shura Council Office on Saturday held its meeting, chaired by Salim Bin Ali Al Ka’abi, Deputy Chairman of the Shura Council.
The meeting, besides reviewing follow-up of the previous meeting’s decisions, discussed progress of work in various departments.
It discussed the response of the Minister of Transport and Communications, Deputy Chairman of Oman Shipping Company, on improvement of conditions of Omani sailors working in the company, and the response of the Minister of Social Development on a letter of substitute mothers working at childcare centre.
It discussed a response from the Ministry of Legal Affairs on the Election Law and a letter of the Health and Social Affairs Committee on the annual report on major achievements of the Ministry of Health in 2011.
The meeting reviewed the annual reports of the ministries of Information and Sports Affairs for 2011 and a report by a Shura Council delegation that took part in the sixth International Forum on Islamic Business and Finance held recently in Tatarstan.
It viewed the invitation for the Shura Council to attend the 10th workshop for jurists and parliamentarians in the UK in July.
It reviewed letters received by the Shura Council, including one from the Sultanate’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia on the Omani-Saudi Parliamentary Friendship Group, and also the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) letter on the Council’s annual report to the Union.
It reviewed letters received from Shura Council members on topics including amendment of the Legal Profession Law, Farq-Izki road, the tunnel in Nizwa Hospital, and extension of water network in some villages and coastal areas in the Wilayat of Ja’alan Bani Bu Ali.
The meeting discussed letters received from non-governmental organisations and citizens on topics including a request for monthly payment to paid internal scholarship. It also discussed a letter from workers at Al Wafa Centre for Rehabilitation of Disabled Children in Salalah, Taqa and Mirbat regarding an appeal to the Shura Council, besides a citizen’s letter on regulating work of taxis and hotels.
Oman News Agency
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