Sultanate set for 48th National Day celebrations
MUSCAT: The Omani loyal people all over the Sultanate will celbrate today, the 48th anniversary of the Glorious National Day.
Their feelings of pride and trust are coupled with feeling of love and good wishes to the architect of modern Oman; His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
The achievements made over the past 48 years are the outcomes of the efforts made since the first day of the blessed Renaissance.
The achievements made are attributed to His Majesty’s wisdom, will and love for his loyal subjects.
His Majesty managed to streamline all resources and channel them to achieve qualitative leap in all fields of life to ensure good present and brighter future for Omanis.
The relationship between His Majesty and the Omanis of successive generations is very unique in shape and essence.
Since the launch of the Renaissance in 1970, the Sultanate of Oman, as a state and a society, has managed to become a modern state and to play a positive role in promoting peace, security and stability for itself and for countries and peoples of the region as well.
Achievements
The Sultanate’s efforts were based on the many social and economic achievements made, as well as on the remarkable prosperity and development in the standard of living of the Omani citizens, all that and its continuation is the fruit of the enlightened thought of His Majesty the leader and his care for Omani citizen.
The Omani people have been provided with the required education, training and rehabilitation to prepare him to become a partner and active player in the development process.
The Omani people have been always regarded as the medium and aim of this development process.
Efforts were made to build a modern state based on justice, equality, citizenship and role of law.
His Majesty has also spared no effort to maintain the unity of this nation from the Governorate of Musandam to the last part of the Omani land in the Governorate of Dhofar and from the east to the far west in Al Buraimi, A’Dhahirah, Al Wusta and Al Ruba Al Khali (the Empty Quarter).
The Basic Law of the State and its amendments have embodied this to ensure the state of the institutions, the rule of law, the broad and deep cooperation among the executive and legislative organisations within the framework of the equality, rule of law, judicial independence and facilitating justice to citizens.
On the other hand, and as part of the royal care for the Omani man, especially youth which are accorded with special care from His Majesty the Sultan, more than 33,000 jobs have been provided for the job seekers at the private sector institutions in cooperation with the government till the end of May 2018.
His Majesty also ordered in last October to promote the Omani staff, 2010 batch, and to expand the number of beneficiaries from the fuel subsidy programme, implemented by the government.
One hundred million Omani rial has been allocated for this programme in 2018 to alleviate the burdens of citizens.
As part of the continuous cooperation between the Council of Ministers and the Council of Oman (the State Council and Majlis Al Shura), a joint meeting between the Council of Ministers and the Council of Oman was held on May 2.
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