The Council of Ministers decided to transfer all students of transitional classes in the basic and secondary education stages to the higher grade, and the Ministry of Education was requested to draw up a plan to compensate the educational losses for students at the beginning of next year.
During its weekly session today, headed by Eng. Imad Khamis, the Prime Minister, the Council asked the Ministries of Education and Health to coordinate to set the appropriate date for conducting exams of “basic and secondary education certificates in all its branches” and to take the necessary measures to preserve students ’health by increasing the number of exam centers and achieving spatial spacing between students and achieving Health safety conditions for all students.
The Council decided to extend the suspension of the working hours of public and private universities and institutes until after the Eid Al Fitr holiday.
The Council conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the measures to tackle the Corona virus and its direct impact on the “economic and service” realities, stressing the importance of strict enforcement of the curfew imposed and the adoption of preventive measures related to hygiene and limiting gatherings, especially when providing services in the public and private sectors.
The Council asked all ministries to start gradually replenishing the workers, provided that the working time will continue to be forty percent this week, to increase the working time gradually, according to the directorates most in need to complete the work, especially with regard to citizens ’transactions. And adhere to the Ministry of Health’s guidelines and instructions for the prevention of corona virus.
Approving the plan of the Ministry of Health to receive returning citizens from all countries and the mechanism for receiving them
The Council approved the plan of the Ministry of Health to receive returning citizens from all countries and the mechanism for receiving them and securing their requirements and quarantine centers that have become ready to place the arrivals with a stone for a period of fourteen days in order to ensure their safety and in a manner that meets the requirements of health safety.
The Cabinet reaffirmed its commitment to all ministries and public sector agencies to put in place a mechanism to limit any clusters in the services they provide and to ensure health safety conditions. The ministries of the Interior, Local Administration and the Environment were mandated to prevent any clusters in the services provided by the private sector and take strict measures against violators.
Extremism in combating smuggling in all its forms
In another matter, the council asked the ministries of finance and the interior and all the concerned authorities to strictly combat smuggling in all its forms, especially smuggling foodstuffs and imposing the maximum penalties for anyone who smuggled materials out of borders. The council stressed the importance of citizens cooperating to report any smuggling operation, especially in border villages.
The governors were tasked with expanding to establish popular markets in regions, cities and towns so that farmers can directly display their products to consumers and sell them at competitive prices and break all links of mediation and monopoly with strict application of health conditions in these markets.
The Council approved the plan of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor to launch a new stage of the program to support and enable the new demobilized people to serve the science who were not covered by the program in its first stage where the beneficiary is given a monthly financial reward in addition to training and qualifying the demobilized to contribute by enforcing them to the labor market or having the ability to establish a finite project Young people to enhance their social stability.
The Council approved the mechanism prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture to address the debts arising from peasant societies in order to enable these societies to fulfill their role and obtain financing from the Agricultural Bank.
In a statement to reporters after the session, the Minister of Education, Emad Al-Azab, stated that the Ministry of Education will evaluate students of the “seventh, eighth, tenth and eleventh” classes and collect the results of this evaluation with the marks of the first semester to arrange the sequence of their success, noting that the exams of the “basic and secondary education certificates in all its branches” will not be in The Ministry of Education and Health will coordinate to set the appropriate date and take the necessary measures to preserve the health of students, where work is being done to increase the number of exam centers by about 700 centers to 5600 centers at the governorate level, provided that all measures are presented to the Cabinet to take the necessary M regarding it, stressing that no student will be tested with a lesson that he did not take on the school’s seats.
In turn, the Minister of Finance, Dr. Mamoun Hamdan, indicated that a group of strict measures was taken to prevent and reduce the smuggling that has increased recently, especially with regard to the smuggling of foodstuffs. For any smuggling operation, especially since the Customs Law stated in its articles that anyone who gives any information about a smuggling operation remains secret and these goods are confiscated, and this citizen has a share of these fines.
For his part, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Dr. Bassam Ibrahim said that the ministry continues to provide the required information in educational curricula through websites during the period of extending the suspension of working hours for universities and institutes where more than eighty percent of these courses were loaded in addition to students’ communication with professors in some research courses The process, noting that upon the resumption of work, all the lectures that were placed on the websites will be reviewed in order to clarify them from the theoretical and practical side.
The Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Eng. Ahmed Al-Qadiri pointed out that the adoption of the mechanism in which the situation of bad debts in the agricultural societies was addressed would enable the societies to finance through agricultural banks in addition to finding a solution to the bad debts on the associations because of the issue of solidarity and solidarity, indicating that this procedure is necessary It is important for farmers and will have a positive impact on the associations in terms of plans and financing.
Source : Sana
