500 Billion Dinars For Capital Projects By 2025
Iraq 12/30/2024 Baghdad Provincial Council has prepared a plan for projects worth 500 billion dinars to be implemented during the coming year. While the Capital Municipality pledged a qualitative shift in services during the first four months of 2025, the Parliamentary Services Committee revealed that the focus will be on infrastructure and completing ongoing and stalled projects.
Ali Al-Hamidawi, a member of the Parliamentary Services Committee, told Al-Sabah: Baghdad Governorate’s plan for next year will be limited to ongoing and stalled projects and infrastructure.
He pointed out that the most important of these projects are the entrances to Baghdad-Hillah and Abu Ghraib, as they are part of the government program, as well as sewage projects, most notably Al-Mahmoudiyah, whose implementation this year has witnessed a significant delay, in addition to the implementation of infrastructure, including paving, sidewalks, health centers, and water stations, especially in the areas of Kuweirish and Al-Hussainiya.
Al-Hamidawi pointed out the impossibility of launching new strategic projects due to the allocated financial allocations amounting to nearly 400 billion dinars.
He explained that the ongoing projects, which number about 500, need large financial allocations, noting that Parliament seeks to overcome the legislative obstacles facing the capital next year, in order to implement the projects in the best possible way.
For his part, Baghdad Provincial Council member Mohammed Al-Shaalan told Al-Sabah: The governorate has prepared its plan for next year at a financial cost of about 500 billion dinars.
He added that the aforementioned plan includes projects in various sectors, including water, sewage, roads linking districts and sub-districts to the centre, and infrastructure in outlying areas.
He noted that the focus will be on deprived areas that have not been included in the service effort and are not included in the plans, indicating that 50 percent of the 2023 budget has been allocated to road and bridge projects and investment and strategic projects, in addition to the fact that the budget is distributed between the Baghdad Municipality and the governorate, and a small share of it goes to the outskirts.
In turn, the Director of the Projects Department in the Baghdad Municipality, Engineer Yaqzan Al-Waili, told Al-Sabah: The municipality has begun implementing 84 diverse service projects, the most prominent of which is developing all traffic intersections and decorating the streets with lighting and green areas, in addition to covering the sidewalks with Muqarnas.
He added that the first four months of next year will witness a qualitative shift in terms of services, after the completion of infrastructure works and cladding projects, noting that three municipal departments, namely Al-Kadhimiya, Al-Adhamiya and Al-Karkh Center, are close to completing the cladding works within their sector by 100 percent.
Al-Waili explained that the works currently being implemented in various areas of the capital include renewing water, sewage and rainwater networks, in addition to replacing side molds and paving streets with muqarnas, in addition to paving and covering streets and main roads, explaining that these projects aim to improve the service reality of the capital in conjunction with its selection as the Arab Tourism Capital for the year 2025. https://alsabaah.iq/107912-.html
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