politicsIraqi Council of Ministers 2021-07-06 13:36A-AA+
Shafaq News/ During its session held today, Tuesday, the Iraqi Council of Ministers took a number of decisions, including allocating two billion dinars to revive a religious visit.
Al-Kazemi’s office said in a statement received by Shafaq News Agency, “The latter presided over the twenty-sixth regular session of the Council of Ministers, in which the developments of events in the country were discussed, and topics on the agenda were discussed, foremost of which is the files of electricity and residential lands for citizens.”
The session witnessed extensive and lengthy discussions on the electricity file, and a detailed report from the Ministry of Electricity was reviewed on the challenges and obstacles and the most important proposed solutions to address the problem.
In this regard, Al-Kazemi referred to the sabotage attempts that targeted electric power towers last week, which were aimed at impeding the highest production ceiling that we have reached, and stressed that the investigation will soon reveal the full reasons behind the decline in electric power in the country, and the repeated targeting of transmission towers.
He stressed the need to raise the state of alert on the part of the security forces in order to protect the generation plants and power transmission towers, pointing to the ability to thwart a number of sabotage and terrorist attempts, and the arrest of a number of saboteurs and the killing of others.
The Prime Minister stressed that this government has worked to increase the production of electric power, and the opening of several stations, and it is continuing to increase production and overcome obstacles to opening stations and contracting, indicating that poor planning, corruption and chaos in decision-making represent a heavy legacy in the electricity file, and the current government is working to overcome it and put This file is on the right track.
After the Council of Ministers discussed what is on its agenda with regard to the electricity file, it took decisions related to the electricity sector represented in overcoming obstacles to many projects and protecting towers, and the profitable Ministry of Oil companies lending the Ministry of Electricity companies an amount of (50) billion dinars to cover emergency expenses, and the Pay the amount within one year. The Cabinet also discussed the file of allocating residential plots to citizens, and the right of every family to own decent housing that preserves its dignity.
Al-Kazemi confirmed his personal follow-up to the technical team of the website for its launch soon, as they were met today to review the developments regarding the project and the launch of the website, which will ensure a fair and transparent distribution, free of favoritism, and according to the total points that each citizen will obtain.
He explained that the government’s plan for granting land will include distributing 550,000 residential plots from the start.
During the past months, the government was able to complete the secretion of lands for 17 new cities in all governorates except for the region, and the lands of 8 of them became technically complete and ready for distribution, amounting to more than 338 thousand housing units.
Al-Kazemi directed the concerned government agencies to make every effort to provide the largest possible number of plots of land for all segments of Iraqi society. He stressed that all groups that do not have housing, and have never benefited from a plot of land granted by the state, will be included in obtaining a plot of land, stressing that priority in the plots of land will be for the families of martyrs, the poor classes, and families with lower incomes.
Al-Kazemi indicated that there is another initiative parallel to the residential land distribution initiative, which is to grant loans to citizens to help build their housing units on their lands; Which will revitalize the urban movement and provide more job opportunities.
The session witnessed a review of the work of the Committee to Strengthen Governmental Measures to limit the spread of the Corona pandemic, especially in light of the noticeable increase in the number of reported injuries recently, as it was agreed to hold a session of the Supreme Committee for Health and Safety soon.
With regard to the preparations for the visit to Arafa, it was approved that the Ministry of Finance allocate an amount of (2000,000,000) dinars, only two billion dinars, to the holy governorate of Karbala from the emergency reserve, for the purpose of securing the expenses of visiting Arafa and providing services to visitors, based on the provisions of Article (5) of the General Federal Budget Law for the year Finance/ 2021.
With regard to the government’s efforts to reform, fight corruption and waste, and properly plan for economic development in the country, the Ministerial Council for Social Services Resolution No. (1 of 2021), which includes contracting with one of the major international companies specialized in management in the capacity of a consultant to the government, was approved by the Ministries of Planning and Finance, both according to Its tasks that are established in its law, or jointly and in a manner that ensures the provision of optimal advice to the Council of Ministers and the preparation of economic and financial indicators to guide the development path at the macro, sectoral and spatial levels.
The Council agreed that the Ministry of Planning would contract with international and local companies and consulting offices specialized in the field of project management and implementation, and prepare feasibility studies to ensure the best consistency and speed of project management and implementation.
He also agreed that the implementing agencies (sectoral ministries, governorates, and agencies) would seek the assistance and contract with global and local companies and consulting offices specialized in project management and implementation, and prepare feasibility studies to ensure better performance, consistency and speed for project management and implementation.
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