Ministry of Finance completes tasks of inventorying govt assets

Ministry of Finance completes tasks of inventorying govt assets

Muscat: The Ministry of Finance completed the tasks of inventorying government assets and entering them in the National Register of Government Assets (codenamed Osool or Assets). The second phase of the project covered the assets of the Ministry of Finance and Muscat Municipality. As many as 14, 722 registered assets in both institutions were inventoried, among 3, 442 assets belonging to the Ministry of Finance and 11, 280 assets belonging to Muscat Municipality. The second phase also saw the launch of the e-system of the Government Assets' National Register. Inventorying procedures are still ongoing at the Health Ministry, which owns a broad range of assets in its directorates general, hospitals, polyclinics, health centres and their affiliate establishments. The Ministry of Finance also resumed second phase preliminary procedures of asset inventorying at the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, Dhofar Municipality and the Environment Authority. The project will later cover other government entities. The next phase of inventorying will also cover the assets of the Sultanate of Oman's investments, locally and abroad, the assets Oman Investment Authority and the Central Bank of Oman. The Finance Ministry will simultaneously set hands on developing the electronic system for