We need more than 100 thousand housing units. 25 thousand were only completed.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="postcontent restore">June 3 2011
Engineer Kameran Ahmed Abdullah Minister of Construction and Housing summarizes the main activities of his ministry telling the «Middle East» «that the main focus of our activities in the establishment of main roads with bridges and tunnels linking the cities, so that the internal roads are terms of reference of the provinces and municipalities, and the second part of our work is to create projects of government buildings, municipal schools, universities, hospitals and all the buildings needed by other ministries and housing projects », pointing out that« the government of the region focused on since 2006, housing schemes, to the faces of citizens from a severe crisis in this subject, so I decided to involve the private sector to resolve this crisis by granting licenses for investors to build housing units different ».
In terms of figures, indicates the Minister indicates that «the need for the region of the housing units now stands at more than 100 thousand units. And projects that have been granted investment licenses to carry 60 thousand housing units, of which 25 thousand fulfilled thousand units and residential units that have been completed by our ministry during the past ten years, amounts to 22 thousand units allocated to the families of Martyrs and Anfal ».
Abdullah adds that «the way of the implementation of the methods previously adopted by the actual need and now we are facing a dilemma is that the infrastructure of these roads destroyed, and one of our priorities is the creation of modern methods and twin-aisle, which bear large loads, intensive-traffic, and knowledge of our need for roads and how to sustain, the ministry signed on the master plan (Master Plan) for the road network within the region, the first part gives information on the existing road and the reality of their services and the need of reforms, and the coordinates of all the roads. The second part gives an accurate perception of the main roads that we need to link the cities of the region, taking into account the courier services for agricultural and industrial products. This information is based on the volume of traffic, as the size of this movement was in 2003 between 300 to 500 cars within 24 hours, Now, between 2000 to five thousand cars, and taking into account that the heavy duties cars was less weight than today, as it used methods huge trucks (trailers), and this means that the weights have also increased dramatically, and these methods need to change in the designs of the soil layers and concrete and asphalt, and this is not random, so the (Master Plan) is very important. It will be accomplished and we will receive it next month. It is based on the stages and divided into 5 years till 2030 ».
Engineer Abdullah, saying, «according to the government's plan, the Ministry is undertaking necessary projects until 2015 and on ways between the main cities of the two corridors and the traffic volume is high, and the expansion of roads single-aisle to the two passages, and the reconstruction of the old ways such as through Sulaymaniyah - Kirkuk. This depends on the budget allocated to the Ministry », pointing out that« through Erbil - Sulaimaniya, is one of our priorities, and we started the implementation of a broad road from Erbil reflects to spend Kuysanjaq in Sulaimaniya, across the tunnel, and there is a project to link the Sulaymaniyah area Bhdr which includes the elimination Rania and Qeladze with Irbil in triangle-and twin-and motorways passing through the Jebel Sultan prestige, and the first phase of this project is being implemented ».
Engineer Abdullah illustrates that is very useful to us and at the same time on our behalf that the Prime Minister Barham Saleh, who holds a doctorate in civil engineering and had worked in large European companies, I find it important to rely on his experiences in the construction phase in which we live today».
The Minister of Construction and Housing complains that «our share of the budget allocated to the province from the federal government does not help us to implement our projects in full, The ministry share of the Territory's budget is $ 600 million for ongoing projects and a section for new projects, our requests for 2011 were approximately billion and 200 million of the projects, but we got 85 million dollars, The priorities of the government this year for electricity and this is important for all citizens, and there is a permanent disability in the budget of the region, ad hoc Federal Government 17 per cent go 70 per cent of the operational budget, no salaries for staff, remains of which 30 per cent not enough to draft the region », warning« we manage people's budget, according to the priorities of the people and we have the people and staff we serve, and what we offer is not as well as us, but that our primary duty »
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="postcontent restore">June 3 2011
Engineer Kameran Ahmed Abdullah Minister of Construction and Housing summarizes the main activities of his ministry telling the «Middle East» «that the main focus of our activities in the establishment of main roads with bridges and tunnels linking the cities, so that the internal roads are terms of reference of the provinces and municipalities, and the second part of our work is to create projects of government buildings, municipal schools, universities, hospitals and all the buildings needed by other ministries and housing projects », pointing out that« the government of the region focused on since 2006, housing schemes, to the faces of citizens from a severe crisis in this subject, so I decided to involve the private sector to resolve this crisis by granting licenses for investors to build housing units different ».
In terms of figures, indicates the Minister indicates that «the need for the region of the housing units now stands at more than 100 thousand units. And projects that have been granted investment licenses to carry 60 thousand housing units, of which 25 thousand fulfilled thousand units and residential units that have been completed by our ministry during the past ten years, amounts to 22 thousand units allocated to the families of Martyrs and Anfal ».
Abdullah adds that «the way of the implementation of the methods previously adopted by the actual need and now we are facing a dilemma is that the infrastructure of these roads destroyed, and one of our priorities is the creation of modern methods and twin-aisle, which bear large loads, intensive-traffic, and knowledge of our need for roads and how to sustain, the ministry signed on the master plan (Master Plan) for the road network within the region, the first part gives information on the existing road and the reality of their services and the need of reforms, and the coordinates of all the roads. The second part gives an accurate perception of the main roads that we need to link the cities of the region, taking into account the courier services for agricultural and industrial products. This information is based on the volume of traffic, as the size of this movement was in 2003 between 300 to 500 cars within 24 hours, Now, between 2000 to five thousand cars, and taking into account that the heavy duties cars was less weight than today, as it used methods huge trucks (trailers), and this means that the weights have also increased dramatically, and these methods need to change in the designs of the soil layers and concrete and asphalt, and this is not random, so the (Master Plan) is very important. It will be accomplished and we will receive it next month. It is based on the stages and divided into 5 years till 2030 ».
Engineer Abdullah, saying, «according to the government's plan, the Ministry is undertaking necessary projects until 2015 and on ways between the main cities of the two corridors and the traffic volume is high, and the expansion of roads single-aisle to the two passages, and the reconstruction of the old ways such as through Sulaymaniyah - Kirkuk. This depends on the budget allocated to the Ministry », pointing out that« through Erbil - Sulaimaniya, is one of our priorities, and we started the implementation of a broad road from Erbil reflects to spend Kuysanjaq in Sulaimaniya, across the tunnel, and there is a project to link the Sulaymaniyah area Bhdr which includes the elimination Rania and Qeladze with Irbil in triangle-and twin-and motorways passing through the Jebel Sultan prestige, and the first phase of this project is being implemented ».
Engineer Abdullah illustrates that is very useful to us and at the same time on our behalf that the Prime Minister Barham Saleh, who holds a doctorate in civil engineering and had worked in large European companies, I find it important to rely on his experiences in the construction phase in which we live today».
The Minister of Construction and Housing complains that «our share of the budget allocated to the province from the federal government does not help us to implement our projects in full, The ministry share of the Territory's budget is $ 600 million for ongoing projects and a section for new projects, our requests for 2011 were approximately billion and 200 million of the projects, but we got 85 million dollars, The priorities of the government this year for electricity and this is important for all citizens, and there is a permanent disability in the budget of the region, ad hoc Federal Government 17 per cent go 70 per cent of the operational budget, no salaries for staff, remains of which 30 per cent not enough to draft the region », warning« we manage people's budget, according to the priorities of the people and we have the people and staff we serve, and what we offer is not as well as us, but that our primary duty »
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