In a short span of one-and-a-half years, Dr. P. Mohamed Ali, Managing Director of Galfar Engineering and Contracting LLC, the flagship of Galfar Group of Companies, has been conferred with no less than three coveted awards and honour in quick succession.

In 2002, Glasglow Caledonian University, Glasglow, Scotland, conferred upon him a doctorate of Science-Honouris Causa, in recognition of his service in spreading vocational and professional education in the country of his adoption, Oman. Glasglow Caledonian College in Al Hail embodies the vision of this man.

     Dr. P. Mohamed Ali

It is a state-of-the art college, equipping Omanis with the wherewithal to take Oman on the fast track in the quest of technological renaissance.
Dr. Mohamed Ali received Oman's Civil Order Grade ΙΙΙ for his meritorious service in the development of Oman.He has been decorated with the Bharatiya Pravasi Samman, an honour given to only 12   people of Indian origin out of a diaspora of more than 25 million Indians spread over 130 countries.

For a common man from India, born in a remote village of Kerala to parents of average means, it is literally a rags-to-riches story. After completing his basic education in his native village he qualified in engineering and set sail for the Gulf like thousands of other Indians in search of gold and glory.
His first port of call was Dubai in 1971. The following year he was picked up by an ambitious Omani, Sheikh Salim Saeed Al Araimi, to work for him in Oman. Since then the two have worked hand in hand, weathered many a storm together and established the supremacy of Galfar as a world-class company with dozens of subsidiaries encompassing Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Yemen, Bahrain, Brunei and India. Their quest for further success and glory continues.