BAGHDAD - Muntazer Nasser
18 provinces managed to spend all its budget before the end of this year, an Arbil, Dhi Qar, Wasit, Salah al-Din and Anbar, Babil, Maysan, Dahuk, Karbala, Basra was less in the provincial achievement.
The provinces have complained of lack of capacity to their budgets by 10 percent of real maturity, and carry most of the central government and its ministries on the deterioration of projects and reluctance, demanding its power and hold their fire for the implementation of projects.
And opened the "world" since October (October) last file local governments lagging projects and consulted Iraq's 18 provinces and the size of spending and the nature of the problems they face.
The Vice Chairman of the provincial council in Basra, Sheikh Ahmad Al Sulaiti in an interview for "world" is the responsibility of the central government foot-dragging in the projects, adding "I did not spend to maintain only 14 percent of the budget amounting to thousand and 130 billion dinars," he referred to the implementation of 600 projects. "
Governor of Babylon, in turn, revealed Mohamed Messaoudi, for all budget spending of $ 146 billion dinars of gold for most of the electricity sector, stressing the development department for follow-up business in the lagging sectors of water, electricity, roads, and expected achievement of the budget next year 314 billion dinars.
For his part, Chairman of the provincial council in Karbala, Mohammed al-Moussawi said his local has spent the entire budget for the current year, which amount to 85 billion dinars, is that all that money went to pay the debts of old projects, and did not allocate none of them any new project in 2011, adding that the province has not completed only 22% of the projects, and complained of lack of access to any additional amount, despite the entry 22 thousand foreign tourists to it every day.
As revealed Tapan Jabbar Saleh, director of planning in the province of Sulaymaniyah, for enabling the province to spend 40 percent of the total budget ranging between 400 and 350 billion dinars, saying access to 43 per cent of the budget of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, or 75 thousand dinars per citizen per year .
In turn, says Ghazanfar watermelon, a board member and secretary of the Wasit province, said that his province has spent all the budget of 95 billion dinars, referring to the completion of the projects through funds retained $ 83 billion dinars, pointing out that next year will end the file of services by not less than 70 percent .
The Abdel Hadi Abdullah Al-Saadawi Mohan, Vice President of the Council of the province of Dhi Qar, spending all the budget year and $ 300 billion dinars, denounced the reduction of its budget to 261 billion next year, saying that the only county that has been able to exchange all of their budgets during the last three years. He noted that 500 foreign tourists visit annually the archaeological site of Ur, appealing to Baghdad to intervene in resolving the water problem that caused 75% of the dry marshes.
For his part, the governor of Baghdad, Salah Abdul Razzaq to spend 90% of its budget for 2011 and $ 625 billion dinars on infrastructure projects in the outskirts of the capital, and expected budget of up to 1.3 trillion dinars (1.1 billion dollars) next year, saying it will complete all the rural roads and Almgesrat within the city and the rehabilitation of five entrances to the capital in proportion and status.
To the detection of Diwaniya Governor Salem Hussein Alwan, for spending 75 percent of its budget for this year, amounting to 96 billion dinars, asserting the signing of 95 percent of the contracts relating to this matter. He said that the general ministries did not implement what is required of them during the past two years, revealing the success of access to second place in the marketing of grain.
He said Ahmed Abdul-Jabbar Jubouri the deputy provincial governor to spend 240 billion dinars is the sum of its budget, focusing on road projects, bridges, and the sectors of electricity.
The carrying Diyala Governor Dr. Abdul Nasser James Baldwin and the Ministry of Planning to delay receipt of the budget until last June, which led to not spending more than its budget of 119 billion dinars.
The Deputy Chairman of the Board of Maysan province, Abbas spinal spend all its budget for this year, amounting to 226 billion dinars, by focusing on sectors such as health, education, electricity, water, unexpected achievement of its budget for next year's 400 billion dinars.
The governor of Anbar Qassim Mohammed Fahdawi we were able to spend all our budget of 270 billion dinars, and revealed on the implementation of 634 projects.
The expected increase in its budget next year to 325 billion dinars, said they do not constitute only 10 per cent of its needs, blaming Baghdad responsible for withholding 80 billion dinars a share of the province.
The Vice-Chairman of the Board of Najaf province Khudair Jubouri spent 70 percent of its investment budget of $ 136 billion dinars, effectively achieving a breakthrough at a rate of 60 percent in the areas of roads and projects, education and water, expecting 293 billion dinars as a counterbalance for the next year.
The governor of Nineveh province, said he managed to spend about 45 percent of the total budget of the province of 270 billion dinars, saying that things are stalling because the money has not been received, but last July. But he noted that his province, which accounts for 11 percent of the population of Iraq, not provided power only less than 2 percent of the general budget of the country.
The governor of Muthanna Ibrahim Mayali that the cost of paving the long road and one assigned to his province 5 times its budget, the current $ 91 billion dinars, including money round of last year, but he said that the province spent 80 percent of them, expecting to get 300 billion dinars in 2012.
The chairman of the provincial council in Kirkuk, Hassan Turan that the province has spent more than 80 percent of its budget of $ 110 billion, 10 percent, just to balance revenues petro-dollar, amounting to 351 billion dinars, and said that the central government did not spend in the sector of municipal services, only 17 billion dinars, only during the 8 years, expecting to reach the next budget 500 billion dinars, including the amounts retained.
As announced Erbil Nawzad Hadi spend all its budget for development of the regions this year and $ 110 billion dinars, indicating that it focused on service projects in various sectors of education, health, energy, roads and sports.
He stressed that the total spent on maintenance of budgets during the years following the year 2004 amount to ten times what I got since the founding of the Iraqi state until 2003, stressing that the volume of investment in the province for the current year amounted to $ 10 billion.
Said Mustafa Ahmed Imam adviser Dohuk governorate we spent 90 percent of our budget for the development of the regions of 70 billion dinars this year on several service projects, praising the new powers granted to the governors, calling for enhancing it.
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