He stressed that after completion of the restructuring and privatisation process in 2008, the unemployment rate will significantly drop.
The state will help all citizens who want to start production or some other business through funds from the Fund for Development and through programmes of the National Employment Service, he said.
After meeting with president of the Novi Pazar municipality Sulejman Ugljanin, the Minister said that the “process of saving companies” is at the end and that the government allotted RSD 380 million for Novi Pazar companies textile maker Raska, ready-made clothes maker Raska, Minel and Sandzak Trans.
Ugljanin said that the cooperation between the government and local self-governments has been yielding extremely satisfactory results, adding that he talked with Lalovic about the possibilities of building a regional clinical centre in Novi Pazar.
During his stay in Novi Pazar Lalovic also visited the Raska textile factory where he talked with employees and management of the factory for whose social programme the government and the Ministry provided around RSD 300 million since there is a surplus of over 1,100 workers at the factory.
Lalovic also visited a private company 3B which employed new workers thanks to employment subsidies it received and through which the Ministry and the National Employment Service have been attempting to stimulate the creation of new jobs and reduce unemployment.