Planning Minister: political conditions do not allow to conduct the census

Planning Minister: political conditions do not allow to conduct the census

Ali Aldhargam - 01/19/2013 - 8:18 pm

Said Planning Minister that a census in the current parliamentary session is not possible given the political conditions where many differences and intersections.

He described Ali Shukri conduct the census as "a very complex matter."
On the other hand, Shukri and denied the existence of any political pressure on his way to stop lagging projects, noting in this regard that his ministry listed 487 local companies and 80 foreign companies to the blacklist.

He stressed that "the ministry is working on anti-corruption and trying to deal with project delays by punishing companies that linger in the implementation of projects."

The minister said that "the political circumstances will not allow the census during this session as a result of the existence of problems regarding the disputed areas and the administrative border of the provinces and otherwise in the inclusion field and doctrine in the national census form."

"They did not offer any proposed form on the census and this file moved to the political blocs," describing the lack of a census as "bad thing that hurts the level of economic development."

Regarding the reluctance of enterprises said that "his ministry listed 487 local companies and 80 foreign companies and suspended the work of 510 for non-completion of legal proceedings."

He continued that "the ministry is working to address the problems facing the service ministries for increased coordination with the service ministries concerned."

And for the granting of the first local companies Category, said that "his ministry is working on anti-corruption which afflict grant identities of these companies" He explained, "a committee was formed from the ministries of commerce and industry, water resources, construction and housing, municipalities and Office Mahalah Supervision Engineers Association and Association of Jurists for the purpose of checking the papers presented to give the identities mentioned."

And that "this file is complex and the great corruption and try to get rid of it by this committee." With regard to the file of the ration card, he said, "the ministry from the beginning, giving two more years to study the possibility of canceling the card or not."

He explained that "there are three proposals for a ration card file first serious discussion and the possibility to continue the process of distribution to the next two years or option grants for citizens to get a cash distribution or retain The third proposal is food box or the so-called food basket."

He said, "It's about the lives of the citizens of this supposed lack of speed in making any decision thereon."

And the number of state employees, Shukri said: "There are 3 million and 500 employees working in departments and official institutions and approximately one million and 500 thousand employees in the security departments and two million retired."

He noted that "this number of staff needed to regulate their output through the accomplishment of a career numbering database which gives each employee."

He pointed out that "there is a tendency for the ministry to develop a strategy for the process of organizing output with the Ministries of Education, commensurate with the Iraqi market and the needs of the economy."
And on his efforts in the fight against corruption in the ministry said it was "investigating now file reconstruction building ministry as it exchange them approximately 64 billion dinars, while showing that cost real not exceed 4 billion dinars." And explained that "his relationship with distinctive Office of the Inspector General that there are understood to solve problems facing the ministry regarding suspicions of corruption. "
And the ministry's efforts to implement the strategy of poverty alleviation-Shukri said he was "forming operations room with the Ministry of Construction and Housing for the construction of low-cost $ 600 billion dinars."

He explained that "this role will be distributed to the outskirts of Baghdad and the provinces of Diwaniya, Muthanna and Saladin in the country's poorest and then the provinces of Babil and Maysan and Basra, Diyala, Karbala and Najaf."

"The ministry chose these areas as the most presence of slums and irregular houses."

With regard to the population survey said that "his ministry and in coordination with the World Bank will be the largest survey of residents in June includes all the provinces, and obtained the approval of the Council of Ministers to allocate billion dinars to cover the costs."

With regard to pensions for members of the House of Representatives and the Minister said, "submitted a proposal to the Sadrist bloc to which I belong activating proposed rewards for MPs who end their instead of pensions permanent and returning ministers to their former jobs as is the case in all regimes parliamentary in the world." On the card file National Standard "rejected a proposal to the Ministry of Interior to allocate 50 billion dinars for the establishment of a special plant to issue a card."

He explained that "the reason for the rejection that this process is ongoing and requires changes between now and then and the establishment of a special plant will keep the card without any additions and modernization."

He noted that "the Ministry of Interior informed planning to have begun contracting procedures with international companies after the Ministry agreed to allocate more than 200 billion dinars for this project."

And examination of imported goods, said "The ministry is in the process of opening of examination centers for goods in Basra, Dhi Qar, Anbar, the value of each one billion dinars is equipped with the latest testing of devices."
Shukri concluded his speech by saying "we will end with the three companies viewfinder during the next six months."

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