Baku, Azerbaijan, May 1
By Farhad Daneshvar – Trend:
Iran’s Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) has drawn up plans to create at least 4,800 job vacancies in the current fiscal year (started March 20).
Mehdi Karbasian, the head of IMIDRO, has said that finalizing uncompleted projects in the current year would help create 4,822 new job vacancies in the country, ILNA news agency reported May 1.
Karbasian added that his organization over the past three years has created at least 5,565 job vacancies.
IMIDRO hopes to inaugurate a number of projects, including steel factories and power plants over the year.
The official said $1.47 billion has been invested in the projects that are expected to come on stream in near future and $2.298 billion will go to projects that are scheduled to be launched soon.
According to the World Bank, Iran’s unemployment rate returned to a three-year high of 12.7 percent (or 3.3 million unemployed) in the second quarter of 2016 despite the high growth rate in this period.
