Public works projects such as highway construction and government buildings will also increase in 2006, contributing greatly to the increase in cement consumption.

If these refinery projects (partly invested by foreign companies) meet the government standard, we will approve them.

We will be continuing this training and consider giving financial assistance to some projects. Though the aim is not to give financial assistance, it is to show that people can do a lot of things without much money. We need to get youth more interested in life.

Construction projects are always fraught with uncertainties.

This report raises a serious question mark over the amount of efficiency savings the government will achieve. This is a high risk program. Only 50 out of 300 projects have got to deliver 80 percent of the total savings.

not wasted on government bureaucracy or frivolous projects.