Algeria civil service can not create new jobs anymore, says PM

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said civil ervice is full and can not open new jobs. The government relies on industrial sector revival and agricultural sector support to face unemployment problem.

Sellal pledged to take new measures including exceptional advantages to encourage investment in industrial and agricultural sectors in Algeria’s high lands and south.

Those measures will touch new projects and professional people in the two sectors.

On a working visit to the province of Bayadh, the Prime Minister Thursday warned against doubts raised about Algeria’s capacities to achieve development.

He believes that the main problem is employment, saying civil service is full and can not reduce unemployment in the future.

Speaking about essential materials smuggling, Sellal said those materials are subsidized by the State but they are smuggled on Algeria’s eastern and western borders.

“The government’s development policy results started to be clear to people as the industrial base in public and private sectors are recovered progressively,” he said.

He added that the government is ready to support starts-up and existing firms as they constitute efficient mechanisms to create productive jobs.

“Algeria still possesses huge energy capacities. The approach which says that oil reserve is about to be finished is baseless.”

A total of 29 billion DZ were allocated to Bayadh to support development and concretize projects in different sectors.