Allocate 4 trillion dinars for the ration card
14/12/2011
BAGHDAD - Alaa al-Tai
Announced that the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives to allocate 4 trillion dinars to provide the ration card items within the general budget for the year 2012.
He said Haider Abadi, Chairman of the Committee in a statement to the "morning": that "the Commission is considering amendments to the budget for next year, which is scheduled to begin reading the House of Representatives next week."
He Abadi: "The Minister of Commerce objected to the amount allocated to support the ration card items, because the vocabulary that is given to the citizen a month a few and need greater support, indicating that the Council of Ministers may issue a decision to monitor the amount of additional financial support of the ration card in case of financial abundance by the difference sale of crude oil. "cabinet agreed last week to bill the federal budget for 2012 of $ (117) trillion dinars (100 billion dollars), an increase of 22 percent from last year, accounting for the investment budget (37) trillion dinars (about 34 billion dollars) and the operating budget (80) trillion dinars (76 billion dollars) were distributed to institutions, ministries and state bodies of all, where will be the distribution of public expenditures, according to the ratio of the population, after excluding the allocation status of the Federal Ministry and the sovereign expenditure. With regard to the amendments to the budget, he said, Abadi: "We are still discussing the subject, particularly the allocations to the provinces and regional development, despite the approval of the Ministry of Finance to increase its stake, as is currently discussing the issue of expanding the powers of the provinces and how to reduce red tape and government bureaucracy that hinder the implementation of investment projects." He continued: "There is an important issue be examined by Parliament is how we eliminate unemployment despite the rationing of grades, even though we have more staff is needed, which is weighing the budget and must be remedied, and search for job creation in the private sector. "
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