02/14/2012 22:33
The province of Babylon
"Portal Iraq," Babylon - The Board of Babil province, Tuesday, that the budget for the province for the current year 2012, amounting to 334 billion dinars, do not fit the size of the province and population density and the need for projects, and urged the Council of Ministers and MPs to tighten control over the Ministry of Planning for follow-up mechanisms for disbursement to the provinces, he noted to the lack of cooperation with the ministries in the financing of local projects task.
The head of the Council Kadhim Majeed Toman, during a special meeting held today the Board to discuss the plan projects for the current year, "The budget of the province for the year 2012 amounting to 334 billion dinars, do not fit the size of the province and population density and the need for projects in various sectors, especially education, municipalities, and roads."
He called Toman Council of Ministers and House of Representatives to "tighten control over the Ministry of Planning for follow-up mechanisms for disbursement to the provinces according to the ratio of the population in which," noting that "most of the ministries do not cooperate with the provincial council funded projects that are important to us in a real problem," as he put it.
The president of the Council of Babylon "and the Ministry of Education for not implemented by any school in the province this year, despite the overcrowding of the existing students, and the Ministry of electricity that you do not perpetuate the transformers and update the energy transport networks."
The House of Babylon announced earlier in the existence of "unfairness" in the financial allocations to the province because of the mechanisms used by the federal government, pointing out that the need to maintain infrastructure has been included in the project plan but not implemented due to these mechanisms.
And complain of many local governments in the provinces of the delayed payment of dues to finance projects and the Ministry of Finance calls for acceleration in the disbursement of their budgets.
And require the majority of Iraqi cities to the implementation of large projects in the areas of electricity, health, education, sanitation and safe drinking water, as a result suffered from the destruction or neglect over the past decades, which saw the country through many wars as well as the siege that was imposed on Iraq after its entry into Kuwait.
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