The parliamentary budget calls for giving the capital's secretariat half its revenues to complete its projects


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The parliamentary committee on economy and investment called on the government to grant the Baghdad Municipality half of its financial revenues from the collection and fees to complete its important projects, pointing out that the delay in the maintenance of Mohammed Al Qasim Highway has caused huge financial losses to the citizens of the capital and others, and the economy of the country, as well as causing traffic jams In Baghdad.

While the Municipality of Baghdad refrained from declaring the cost of completion of the maintenance project, saying that it obtained approvals from the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Finance to launch the financial allocations, confirmed the work of rehabilitation of the road will begin after one month from the date of closure, and will not be reopened three months before that to continue work for a year or more .

A member of the Committee on Economy and Investment Representative Zeitoun al-Dulaimi said in an interview with (Al-Mada): For a while we are following up with the secretariat of Baghdad and the province of Baghdad and all the municipal and service departments the subject of erosion and damage in the way of Muhammad Qasim quick, as we know that a lot of spending in Baghdad is today in a deplorable state This was all evidence of government negligence.

There was no interest in maintaining and maintaining such vital installations for a long period of time. All these works should have been completed for a long time now. The pressure caused by the passage of trucks and obstacles For the technical deterioration was to be carried out quickly, so as not to be subject to the sudden disruption of this vital road and the consequences are dire for the citizen and the Iraqi economy in general.

And stresses: This important road that passes every day a lot of trucks loaded with goods, had reached the desiccation to the stage of the possibility of collapse at any moment, which could have caused serious losses in the lives of citizens, Straddling: According to our knowledge, the maintenance In the road of Muhammad al-Qasim Express has already begun, and the three-month period set by the Secretariat of Baghdad is only a period of completion for the maintenance of this street, not as it is said to be transferred to a company to do maintenance work later, Many, but these streets certainly, will not accommodate Mero Large trucks loaded with many goods and important goods that are in contact with the lives of citizens, whether as a trader or a consumer,

there are shops and large stores that unload daily tons of cargo, so cutting this road is confusion and financial losses and significant economic damage to the citizen and the country at the same time, We ask the Baghdad Municipality to also maintain bridges and several other important roads in Baghdad now also so as not to face what we see today because of the closure of the road Mohammed Qasim.

Al-Dulaimi stressed: usually confirms the Secretariat of the capital, that the weakness of allocations prevents the completion of important projects and vital, and we are aware of this problem, the budgets spent by the government and announced not fully handed over to the ministries to complete important projects, and although the Secretariat of Baghdad has very large resources But the problem is that these revenues go to the treasury of the state to be allocated a small part of the Secretariat and this is strange, so we are asking the government to give half of this revenue to the Secretariat of Baghdad to complete its projects without the need for state or recourse to require financial allocations to maintain or rehabilitate vital facilities as a way D-Qasim the fact that these projects affect the lives of citizens and the Iraqi economy directly.

For his part, a spokesman for the Secretariat of Baghdad, Hakim Abdul-Zahra said in an interview with (the extent): We were in previous years, we do some maintenance of the road Mohammed Qasim fast, but we did not maintain comprehensive maintenance, although this road was severely damaged by the explosions that occurred near the Ministry Especially in relation to the section that extends between the area of ​​Bab al-Mu'amad and central Baghdad, where there has been a crawl of the pillars of the road, and there are other factors affected by also, including the loads are very large, which does not take into account the owners ability to bear the bridge, and we have repeatedly told security agencies to follow up those Overloads, and demanded the need for a shovel Large truck traffic, but sometimes did not apply any direct security authorities by truck owners, which exacerbated the problem.

He continued: However, the Secretariat has long been assisted by Iraqi universities to develop a full and comprehensive study, and the project department in the Secretariat after the study of studies to put costs for the completion of the maintenance project, has also been obtained fundamental approvals recently to start work and maintenance,

The Minister of Finance and the allocation of financial because the subject of maintenance of the street outside the capacity of the secretariat, while Abdul-Zahra to announce the cost of maintenance, but only saying, can not be announced the total amount to complete this project until the approval of the company that will start work, We have closed the street for three months until the completion of the study and analysis and referral to the specialized company to be implemented maintenance, but: part of the contract with the company, which will be local, assisted by foreign bodies and expertise after the comprehensive examination of the condition of the bridge, the need to secure the whole way to be Provide full support for all bridges.

Abdul Zahra also pointed out that the start of work on the maintenance of the road will be in a period not exceeding one month and that the completion of part of maintenance after three months to open the road, with maintenance for a year or more, stressing: On the other hand, And to submit a request to the Prime Minister for the maintenance of Salah al-Din Street, which starts from the city of the flame to the market Justice, which is also an important street, and began to appear iron causing accidents and damage in vehicles, which required work on maintenance, which will be the street back And at a cost of guessing up to 6 billion dinars, and we have obtained So spend this amount to start maintenance also.

A source in the Baghdad Municipality has recently revealed that the resort to maintenance of the road Mohammed al-Qasim came after the discovery that part of it does not bear the passage of cars may collapse suddenly.


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