State Trading Organization’s (STO) newest managing director Hussain Amru has revealed the company’s plans of investment plans in educational sector.
The largest state-owned corporation’s head made the revelation during his speech at Maldives Business Award Gala Night on Saturday evening at Paradise Island Resort.
While stressing on the predicaments faced by the corporation and the country itself over insufficient stock on staple foods, Mr. Amru proclaimed the company is moving towards implementing food security. The decision comes as a means of the company’s initiative to push towards self sustainability of Maldives.
Highlighting on the importance of economic development and its correlation to self-sustainability of the country, Mr. Amru also pressed on the vital role education plays. He also stressed on the preservation of the environment in the country’s quest to achieve economic stability.
In his speech the managing director of STO urged every potential player in the country’s economical backdrop to invest in the future of education. Mr. Amru had acknowledged the efforts by Honorable Qasim Ibrahim, who won the lifetime achievement award at MBA, in expanding the tertiary educational grounds in Maldives.
STO’s managing director had revealed that the company in future will be providing scholarship opportunity to the highest achiever in Advanced Level exams to pursue higher education from anywhere in the globe.
In addition to this, Mr. Amru also noted that the company will be initiating special training programs for laboratory technicians to make them better equipped for the work.