17 Iraqi participants graduate from NEPCO training programme

AMMAN — A total of 17 participants from the Iraq Ministry of Electricity and the Kurdistan Region Ministry of Electricity on Saturday completed technical training and specialised in administrative programmes conducted by the National Electric Power Company (NEPCO).

NEPCO General Manager Amjad Rawashdeh said that the company has offered training programmes since 2004 to participants from Iraq, Yemen and Palestine under the Third Country Training Programme as part of a memorandum of understanding signed with the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

Rawashdeh noted that NEPCO has completed six training programmes out of 12 agreed to be implemented for personnel from the Iraq Ministry of Electricity and the Kurdistan Region Ministry of Electricity for the 2019 fiscal year.

He added that in the coming weeks, the six remaining programmes will be completed, resulting in 145 Iraqi trainees benefitting from the programme in 2019.