7/7/2015
Baghdad: Wafaa Amer (morning) - the resolution of the Baghdad Provincial Council 60 percent of the transfer of powers from the federal ministries to the local government functions according to the provincial law No. 21 of 2008, as amended. Council member Adel al-Saadi said the "morning": That all the committees of the Council towards the past received powers from seven ministries covered by the provincial councils law No. 21 of 2008, an "electricity, trade, the environment, education, health, labor and social affairs and Construction and Housing." He explained that a large part of the functions and powers of these ministries will be transferred to local governments in all provinces, according to the competence of each committee, pointing out that the Act identified the eighth of next August as the date for the transfer of powers. Saadi and pointed to continued coordination with the High Commission in the Council of Ministers for this file and the Coordinating Committees for each province, stressing that the
Council resolution of 60 percent of the transport tasks, but it has been uneven between ministries.
He said al-Saadi, said the Ministry of Education has shown great cooperation in this file, to the extent that the Council voted on the appointment of four new directors in the departments of education Karkh and Rusafa, as well as the existence of cooperation by the Ministries of Trade and work through held workshops and meetings in preparation for the resolution of this matter. Saadi He noted that the Ministry of Electricity has shown no cooperation for the transfer of powers on the basis of the Law of the provincial councils, which obliged all parties to strengthen the decentralized system, while expressing the Ministry of Health a great fear of transfer mechanisms Mlakatha between its departments and the Council, stressing that the rest of the ministries working continuously with the Council of in order to implement the law gradually.
He noted that the time limit for the completion of a few, and must be extended in order to complete all the work to ensure the success of this process without the occurrence of any interference in the powers with the relevant ministries, warning that the files that the local government in Baghdad Sttzlmha very large and adopted by the relevant ministries for years Bagliatha and procedures the old dilapidated that the Council's determination to change as hinder the completion of any file and it was clear from the foot-dragging in the ration card file, along with electricity.
He added that the Ministry of State for Provincial Affairs recently instructed all provinces to prepare reports on the measures taken to take over the powers in order to be activated, which, noting that the Council had already held meetings and workshops with the ministries mentioned person through obstacles and intersections that prevent the transfer of powers, as it has been preparing reports expanded in this regard to be submitted to the Ministry of State for Provincial Affairs ministries for action
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