Sunday 08 / November / 2026
Muscat: The Shura Council Office reviewed yesteray, during its meeting, the report on the work of the permanent committees completed during the third ordinary session (2025–2026) of the Council’s tenth term (2023–2027).
It also reviewed the proposed themes for statements by the permanent committees and visual presentations for the fourth ordinary session, and approved the agenda of the Council’s first regular sitting of the fourth ordinary session, scheduled for 15 November 2026.
This took place during the proceedings of the Office’s 21st regular meeting of the third ordinary session of the tenth term (2023–2027), chaired by Khalid Hilal Al Maawali, Chairman of the Council.
The Office reviewed the Council of Ministers’ response to the initial desire regarding the parameters of the general policy for establishing future agricultural cities.
The meeting reviewed a number of ministerial responses to follow-up tools submitted by members of the Council. Prominent among these was the response of the Minister of Housing and Urban Planning to a question on the digital real estate valuation system and the mechanism for approving property value.
The Office also reviewed the initial desire regarding the preparation of a national family strategy. The desire aims to establish a unified national reference for policies and programmes related to the Omani family, enhance integration among social, economic, health, educational, housing, and other policies affecting the family, and shift from focusing on addressing problems after they occur to prevention, proactivity, and early intervention.
The Office also considered a briefing request submitted to the Minister of Economy regarding the development of the national system for monitoring and foresighting government service challenges.
In the same context, it reviewed a briefing request submitted to the Minister of Economy regarding measuring the development impact of government programmes and projects on citizens’ quality of life, and a briefing request submitted to the Minister of Education regarding increasing the utilization of vacant study places and the absorptive capacity of higher education institutions.
Members of the Office also reviewed a briefing request on regulating expatriate worker remittances in proportion to their incomes to protect the national economy, a briefing request on measuring the quality of higher education institutions’ outputs and their competitiveness in the labour market, as well as a briefing request on the employment and absorption of Bachelor of Science graduates in emergency medical services.
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