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On: Friday 15/7/2011 7:15
Baghdad / term follow-up
revealed the Iraqi Planning Ministry, on Thursday, announced the launch of a new strategy to the Council of Ministers, to raise the petro-dollar budget, stressing expansion of the powers of the provinces in the selection of projects, while the deputy governor of Diwaniya, the need to expand the powers granted to local governments.
He said Planning Minister Ali Yousef Shukri in an interview on the sidelines of his meeting with several officials in the province of Diwaniyah, today, that "there is a new strategy have been presented to the Council of Ministers concerning the lifting of the budget petrodollars and the allocation of funds instead of the provinces of oil-producing and damaged from the effects of the production side," He pointed to "the existence of a large number of provinces do not have oil wealth and the ratio of population to have high."
Shukri added that his ministry "has taken new plans in process for inclusion of projects for the provinces and by identifying the nature of projects and quality by local governments," noting that "Iraq is bound to eliminate on the housing crisis and will build two types of housing first distributed free of charge for residents in slums and the other is sold in installments over 25 years to poor families. "
revealed thanks to "the Council of Ministers make a decision to build five thousand school one deal in the whole of Iraq," adding that "there will be studies and coordination to locate distribution and there is a tendency for the implementation of this huge project by foreign companies. "
The Minister of Planning said that his ministry "detected the presence of 1115 the identity of contractors and companies forged and 2120 letters of guarantee forged bank since 2003 to date back to the companies doing work in different parts of Iraq," adding "The ministry has taken urgent action to address this great imbalance which is reflected negatively on the implementation of projects and the formation of a committee in the ministry made up of representatives of ten ministries for the issuance of identity cards."
For his part, stressed the Deputy Governor Abd Muslim Gazan in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "the need to expand the powers granted to local governments to be able to monitor strategic projects implemented in the provinces and have to manage the provincial role in the selection of quality projects. "
and called for the Gazan "the implementation of the paragraphs of the budget law and the private transfer of funds of investment projects belonging to the ministries which are less than the proportion of completion of 75% to local governments to be able to complete its work and control. "
The House of Representatives approved on 26 of January, the past and the majority, transfer an amount equivalent to one dollar for every barrel of crude oil producer or a duplicate, and every 150 cubic meters of natural gas produced in any Iraqi province to the budget that maintained in accordance with Article 43 of the Iraqi Constitution.
and allocate the Iraqi government budget for development of regions, which gives its budget by the Ministry of Finance after the identification and the Ministry of Planning need each of the projects, and set the budget according to the percentage of the population of the provinces, a step taken to support the structures projects in all provinces after 2003 .
is the province of Diwaniya, 180 km south of Baghdad, one of the poorest provinces of Iraq after Muthanna, as official statistics and calls for its officials constantly increasing its budget and number of projects allocated to it by the ministries and provide jobs for the unemployed in the estimated more than 140 thousand unemployed among its population of about one million and 200 thousand people. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
