Sudan’s Cabinet decided Saturday to continue government subsidy for medicine, cooking gas, electricity and flour, in addition to the immediate start of campaigns to impose market and price control.
The council of ministers also decided to reduce government spending pertaining to external official missions for all government units by 50%.
Cabinet in its three-day closed meeting deliberated in detail the initiative launched by the Prime Minister on the current political crisis and the way forward, stressing its importance for national consensus in order to confront the challenges of the transition.
The Council called on all walks of the Sudanese people to rally around them to achieve the goals of the revolution and the tasks of the transitional period with the widest popular and national participation.
Press statement of the Council of Ministers
The Council of Ministers held a closed meeting during the past three days, in which it reviewed the general situation and ways to confront the major challenges facing the country.
The meeting discussed in detail the initiative launched by the Prime Minister on the current political crisis and the way forward, stressing its importance for national consensus in order to confront the challenges of the transition. The Council called on all groups and forces of the Sudanese people to rally around it to achieve the goals of the revolution and the tasks of the transitional period with the broadest popular and national participation, and with strong and firm support from All components of the transitional authority, civil and military, and peace partners.
First: Economy
During its meeting, the Council of Ministers issued a set of decisions related to the five announced transitional government priorities, which came as follows:
Continuing government support for medicine, cooking gas, electricity and flour.
Immediate start of campaigns to impose market control and price control.
Confiscation and delivery of the smuggled gold and confiscated currencies to the Central Bank of Sudan.
Immediately start to include one million families under the umbrella of health insurance, with funding from the Ministry of Finance and the Zakat Bureau.
Providing a monthly grant of 10 billion pounds to all state workers, not subject to taxes, with the highest percentage allocated to the lowest grades, in order to meet the current economic conditions as of July 2021.
Expand the application base of the Thimarat program to reach 3 million families (an average of about 15 million citizens) within two months.
Increasing the capital of the Silaati program from 2 billion pounds to 10 billion pounds, to increase the reach of the beneficiaries of the project in the various states.
The immediate start of activating the productive and consumer cooperative societies.
Reviewing the salary structure to remove its distortions, and implementing the new salary structure at the beginning of the new fiscal year 2022 . The procedures for accommodating 5,000 male and female employees in the capital and the states have begun at the service entrance.
All school-age children are accepted free of charge in the first grade of primary school in government schools.
– Stopping the import from the customer’s own resources, not allowing the import without banking procedures, and not accepting any settlement in this regard.
Immediately complete the procedures for establishing a gold and crop exchange.
Providing the necessary financing for agricultural inputs in the traditional and semi-mechanized irrigated and rain-fed sectors through the bank portfolio and the Ministry of Finance.
Immediately start completing the village 3 electricity project, which is expected to add 450 megawatts to the national grid.
The economic decisions during the entire past period were aimed at fixing major structural distortions in our national economy, and we would not have been