02/13/2012 19:09
"Portal Iraqi" Basra - decided the prime minister during a session held on Monday, for the first time in Basra, increase the powers contractual portfolios, and allow him to allocate part of the funds (petro) to run out of work from the province, in addition to exchange $ 300 billion dinars previously and allocated to Basra in the House of Representatives last year did not act.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in a speech during the opening session that "the objective of the establishment of the session in Basra is to" listen in detail to the problems faced by the province, "noting that" the Council of Ministers is ready to provide extraordinary powers to the government of Basra as a model for the powers of will we give to the governments local communities in the other provinces in order to advance the reconstruction. "
He al-Maliki, during the meeting which was attended by most of the minister, along with a number of officials in local government, that the situation service in Basra, "need the support from the central government", and between the factories and plants in the province "needs financial allocations for building them," adding that "the local government in Basra is satisfied with the Ministry of Electricity and deal with it. "
In turn, said government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, after the end of the session that "the Council of Ministers decided during the meeting to increase the powers of the governor contractual to be similar to the validity of the degree of the minister," explaining that "the governor became able to contract directly on the implementation of construction projects and service of not more than cost of each one of them for $ 100 million, after the amount is allowed to spend them when contracting to no more than $ 50 million. "
Dabbagh said that "the Council of Ministers approved during its meeting to allow the local government in Basra is part of the allocation of funds (petro) to create job opportunities in public sector institutions for the unemployed people of the province."
For his part, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Nassar al-Rubaie, the presence of "about 36 thousand and 400 unemployed in Basra is registered with the ministry," and that the money (petrodollars) which was approved by the Council of Ministers on the allocation "will run a large number of them," adding that " phenomenon of unemployment in Basra can be reduced through the activation of the laws and regulations concerning the operation of the hands of local organizations working in the private sector. "
For his part, the head of the provincial council in Basra Albzona good morning, "The meeting of the Council of Ministers in Basra expressed an interest in maintaining the central government," saying it "the first time in the history of the Iraqi state, which has held a cabinet meeting in Basra."
He Albzona that "one of the most gains that resulted from the meeting to approve the launch of the $ 300 billion dinars had previously allocated by the House of Representatives to support the preparations to host the Gulf Cup soccer, but the Ministry of Finance declined to award the tournament after the transfer to Bahrain."
It was obtained the province of Basra in the last year 2011 as a result the application of the (petro) for the second year in a row on the biggest financial budget in its history, reached trillion and 130 billion dinars, in addition to the amount of 688 billion dinars round of budget year 2010, and is scheduled to get conservative year 2012, balancing of trillion and 398 billion dinars, in addition to the amounts retained from the previous year's budget of 2011.
The draft (petro) allocation of one dollar to the provinces producing oil for every barrel of oil produced in the fields, and a dollar for every barrel of crude oil repeats in its refineries, in addition to one dollar compared to exploiting every 150 cubic meters of natural gas, as well as to allocate 5% of the total revenues from the border crossing points (land, air and ports).
The Basra governorate Iraqi oil producer, has about 59% of the total reserves of Iraq's oil by 67.9 billion barrels, and the largest five oil fields in the country is the North Rumaila and South Rumaila, Majnoon and West Qurna and Zubair and reported revenues of petrodollars about $ 60 million per month, or $ 720 million annually.
In spite of the abundance of natural resources and many financial allocations that get Basra them annually, but the citizens in the province are suffering severely from years of deterioration of services and their absence in some areas, has the governor of Basra behind Abdul Samad behind during a session of the Council of Ministers presented photos showing the deterioration of the situation service in the province, including a picture showing the students in government primary schools, they are sitting on the ground for lack of seats in their school.
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