The
Greater Amman Municipality Mayor lectures at the Royal Jordanian National
Defense College
Yousef al –shawarbeh emphausized
that
Greater Amman Municipality is an institution has an
administrative and financial Independence managed by a specialized council headed
by the Mayor of Amman, who is responsible for making future plans for
the city, whether for citizens or investors.
Al-Shawarba highlighted the plans and
programs of municipality to address the challenges facing the city,
including the challenge of traffic congestion, which must develop
appropriate solutions for it. A short-term strategic plan was developed
including the development of the public transport system by establishing a
company owned by municipality and purchasing buses this year. Long-term strategic
plan of
bus project pointing attention at signing an understanding memorandum for
studying
the construction of a light rail.
He pointed out the importance of new
legislation in line with the modernity of the state and the city. A special
draft law for the Municipality of Amman has been submitted to the Council of
Ministers, which reflects our aspirations and enables the institution to
perform the required tasks in serving the city and creating the investment environment
in which some legislation has become inappropriate for investment, in addition
to an Act to amend the Professional Code to include a proposal to renew the
licenses of some professions for three
years.
He mentioned that
the unified inspection law will enter into effect soon in order to consolidate
the inspection works on all sectors, where the mechanism of work and inspection
will be within the plan and program of action clearly away from randomness and
mood.
He riveted to the
cancellation about 200 administrative procedures to simplify, engineering and
automating procedures to stimulate the investment environment according to the
plan and program prepared for this purpose, and to achieve a qualitative shift
in the services provided to citizens.
Al-Shawaraba announced about
start-up
investment arm for the municipality in general and in the sectors of
transport, real estate development, service and tourism based on the study of
market and city needs and the compatibility between them and selecting the
implementation of projects based on the economic feasibility study and then
marketing it and providing appropriate infrastructure for investment and enter
partnerships to establish investment projects serve the city
and providing the city's modern requirements such as creating a entertainment
city.
The municipality is
currently working on the project of electronic transformation, which provides
all information and transactions of interest to the citizen electronically in
order to facilitate transactions on the citizen and investor so that the audit
process of the institution electronically through its website in addition
to execution a draft of
special
law considers the first which has been submitted to the Council of Ministers
aims to serve the city and its inhabitants providing all
possible facilities to them.
At the end of the lecture, which was
attended by the Commandant of RJNDC, directing staff and scholars in the national defense Courses 15 and
the War course 24, which include a number of officers of the armed forces, security
services, officials of the state and a number of Arab and foreign students, Greater
Amman Municipality Mayor answered scholars
questions and inquiries .