Basra: lost 600 projects and 90% of our money because of the delayed budget 2013

Basra: lost 600 projects and 90% of our money because of the delayed budget 2013

18-11-2013



 Baghdad / Wael grace

Local officials in Basra that the late adoption of the annual budget cause disabling hundreds of projects in the province, and revealed that the delay in approval and launch of the budget in 2013 caused disruption 610 projects in the province, noting that the province can not exchange more than 10% of the budget allocated for the province this year, while voiced pessimism of the budget of 2014 and the expected loss of months in the approval process launched by the Ministry of Finance.

This comes at a time when the provincial council estimated the value of balancing Basra and share of petrodollar about 5 billion if the federal government generally respected the new provincial powers law.

A member of the Council of Basra, Ahmed Al Sulaiti in a statement to the "long" yesterday that "Basra aspiration to share in the general budget, while up draft budget prepared by the government to the House of Representatives, where tables for allocations of each province", assuming that the deputies maintained in the Council diligence on Basra interest "rather than party affiliation."

It is likely Sulaiti reach budget Basra in 2014 to "$ 5 billion" if the government agreed to release the amount of "five dollars per barrel of oil product," but he is expected to keep the share of Basra on the situation the old, under the pretext of government telling us it could not reconsider the budget to a malfunction in the shares of ministries. "

Sulaiti indicates that "not launch allocations Basra will lead to great anger among the people, will not be back in the interest of the government, which accepted the elections."

And confirms the provincial law amended to be share producing provinces on the "five dollars for each barrel of crude oil producer in the province, and five dollars for every barrel of crude oil refined in refineries province, and five dollars for each (150) one hundred and fifty cubic meters a producer of natural gas in the province. "

Sulaiti predicted that up next year's budget in mid-2014, adding, "ratified the 2013 budget 14/06/2013, while the budget of 2012, it ratified on 23/3 of the same year," noting that delay the arrival of the budget is causing many problems because the province can not afford to develop a plan of action and budget for the disbursement of doors without knowing their share, "and urged the provincial council to put an interim plan before the arrival of the budget, then being after the ratification of amendments to the federal spending plan.

He expressed Sulaiti pessimism about the budget 2014, explaining that "will end the year without to achieve one project," revealing the presence of 750 projects in 2013, at a cost of 3 trillion dinars, no assignment of only 400 projects, 140 projects only are contracted, because of the delayed budget , and expected to spend Basra this year, less than 10% of the budget does not exceed "200 billion dinars" of 3 trillion.

It is likely Sulaiti to enter Basra in 2014 and graduated as a "busy sending correspondence and waiting for approvals from the government in order to complete the project, and ends the year without implementing any project," revealing the need for the province to complete the sewage projects, at a cost of 300 billion dinars, did not we get only 10 % of the value of the project, despite the fact that "streams of Basra spent during the past ten years" 2 trillion dinars, "did not achieve any success, and still maintain sink with every shower", describing the amounts that monitor the streams as "a way of burying money underground" .

For his part, says the head of the Integrity Committee of the Board of Basra, Mohammed al-Mansoori said, "The problem is not whether the budget allocated to Basra sufficient or not, but the problem in the management of money and the way spending," he said in a statement to the "long" What is needed is to rely on "consulting firms discreet to provide advice in the way money is spent and project management methods, "adding that the money allocated in the previous years, come and go to the province of Basra is able to invest.

In another matter Mansouri considered that the delay in the budget will put the province in big trouble, stopped a number of service projects and infrastructure, and the disruption of the salaries of employees and contractors daily wages.

To the expected decision of the Council of Basra Najla Jabbar to reach the budget next year in the middle of the year 2014, or more than that, she said, "long" that "Basra province expects to reach its budget to $ 5 billion," asserting that "the vice province transferred the perspective of maintaining , and the proportion of Basra from the budget, depending on need and the number of the population, "but it also says that the money which is monitored by the government every year" are not commensurate with the importance of Basra and the volume of business and existing projects. "

Jabbar expects to reach the budget 2014 in the sixth month of the next year, which will lead to the obstruction of sewer projects, water desalination, building 5 hospitals in Basra, as well as the presence of 500 schools waiting for allotments, and a number of streets and large bridges.

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