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Abu Dhabi takes steps to sell non-oil industries to public
ABU DHABI. Feb 15: The Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi said yesterday It had started measures to sell Its non-oil Industries to the public as .part of a drive to lessen reliance On oil and ensure fixed income for Its people, reports AFP.
More than half the shares of three government farms would be granted free to low-income nationals while a large stake in three key factories would be sold to local investors at a subsidised price, officials said.
Some 7.600 people would benefit from the grants, the latest In a series of social aid programmes launched by the government since oil was «ruck in the Gulf desert emirate .in the early 1960s. bringing it immense wealth.
Officials said beneficiaries from those grants would not be allowed to trade in their shares while those offered subsidised shareholdings would be permitted to sell shares at a later stage.
"Measures are underway to implement the decision." said Sheikh Hamad Ibn Tah-nun Al-Nahyan, head of the state-owned General Industry Corporation (GIC).
"Nationals who will benefit
from such grants will not be allowed to sell their shares at all to ensure them a permanent income from their profits." Sheikh Hamad tola the officials news agency WAM.
He said each citizen would be granted 10.000 dirhams (2,725 dqllars) worth of shares in the three merged farms, the value of which has been estimated at 140 million dirhams (38.1 million dollars). The move will enable UAE people to control 55 per cent of the farms, while the rest will be owned by the state.
The decision also covers the sale of nearly 175 million dirhams (47.7 million dollars) worth of shares at subsidised prices in three state-owned food factories worth 350 million dirhams (95.3 million dollars).
The government will retain an 18 per cent stake and the rest will be held by the state-run Abu Dhabi investment authority, according to . WAM.
"These institutions have been estimated at far below their real value. This is in line with the policy of ensuring high earnings for the citizens — nearly 30 per cent every year." Sheikh Hamad
said.
Industry sources said the three factories involved in the sale were the Abu Dhabi Flour Mill, the Al-Ain Water Bottling Factory and Al-Ain Ice Factory. They have an estimated capital of 385 million dirhams (loB million dollars).
The measures, approved by UAE President Sheikh Za-yed Ibn Sultan Al-Nahayan last week, are part of overall reforms designed to ease dependence on unpredictable oil earnings, which provide around 80 per cent of its income.
Officials said last year they planned to sell nearly 80 per cent of Abu Dhabi's key factories. with a total capital of around 722 million dirhams (197 million dollars). They include two cement plants worth around 165 million dollars, a flour mill and two mineral water and bags factories.
GIC. which runs Abu Dhabi's non-oil industrial sector. has also earmarked 100 million dirhams (27.2 million dollars) for setting up three new industrial areas near the1 city to attract Investment for manufactured projects.