A plan to implement 220 projects at a cost of 600 billion dinars in Dhi Qar

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[size=52]A plan to implement 220 projects at a cost of 600 billion dinars in Dhi Qar[/size]

[size=45]Dhi Qar / Hussein Al-Amil[/size]
[size=45]Dhi Qar Governorate announced the adoption of a reconstruction plan to implement 220 projects at a cost of 600 billion dinars within the Dhi Qar Reconstruction Fund for the current year, and while it indicated the inclusion of 8 vital sectors in 22 administrative units affiliated with the governorate, the people and activists believe that the governorate’s allocations are not commensurate with the size of the destruction and the deterioration of the reality of structures Infrastructure and lack of services in the governorate, which was classified by the Iraqi parliament in late 2019 as a stricken governorate.[/size]
[size=45]The Governor of Dhi Qar, Muhammad Hadi Al-Ghazi, said about the projects of the Reconstruction Fund, which is managed by the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in coordination with the governorate administration, that "the Reconstruction Fund projects plan for the current year 2022 has been officially approved at a cost of 600 billion Iraqi dinars."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Ghazi explained in a statement issued by his media office and followed by (Al-Mada), that "the plan was approved by the fund according to the statements sent by the governorate and based on specific financial estimates and based on the proposed service sectors," stressing that "the distribution of projects was fair and equitable among all administrative units in the governorate." The projects were distributed according to the population density of each district and sub-district.[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that "the preparation of the plan came based on what was presented by the heads of the administrative units, according to the priority and the need for services," noting that "the projects were distributed over 8 sectors, represented by municipal departments, roads and bridges, water, sewage, electricity, health, education, youth and sports." .[/size]
[size=45]In early October 2020, the Council of Ministers issued a package of decisions related to Dhi Qar Governorate, which included the establishment of the Dhi Qar Governorate Reconstruction Council Fund, which will implement the governorate’s projects and monitor the necessary financial allocations for it within the draft federal budget law for the fiscal year 2021.[/size]
[size=45]For its part, the management of the Dhi Qar Reconstruction Fund confirmed the inclusion of more than 220 new service projects within the plan for the current year 2022, after receiving them from the governorate administration.[/size]
[size=45]The Director General of the Fund, Razzaq Hussein Al-Rikabi, said in press statements followed by (Al-Mada), that "the new projects were received last Thursday, and they will be audited and the approvals of the Ministry of Planning will be obtained during this April," stressing "the inclusion of all administrative units and their distribution according to population density."[/size]
[size=45]The project plan of the Dhi Qar Reconstruction Fund, which was reviewed by Al-Mada, includes 22 administrative units represented in Nasiriyah, Ur, Al-Rifai, Suq Al-Shuyoukh, Al-Akaika, Al-Fadhliah, Karmat Bani Saeed, Al-Tar, Al-Jabayish, Al-Manar, Al-Shatra, Bani Zaid, Al-Dawaya, Al-Islah, Sayed Dakhil, Qalaat Sukkar, Al-Fahud, Al-Gharraf, Al-Nasr, Al-Fajr, Maysaloon, Al-Batha, as well as the inclusion of the health sector in all administrative units in Dhi Qar Governorate.[/size]
[size=45]The Dhi Qar Governorate Reconstruction Fund had announced earlier that it would continue to implement 206 projects within its plan for 2021.[/size]
[size=45]However, quite a few local residents and activists believe that the reconstruction fund projects lack large strategic projects and that the total funds allocated to the province were not unified management, but rather are distributed to three sides: the reconstruction fund, the development plan for the regions and the projects of the investment plan for the ministries. Civil activist Hisham Al-Sumari believes that “the allocations of Dhi Qar governorate are not commensurate with the extent of the devastation, the deterioration of the reality of infrastructure and the lack of services in the governorate.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sumari added, "The promises of reconstruction and large financial allocations previously launched by the government to absorb the anger of the demonstrators have mostly evaporated, and that the announced projects did not include the implementation of major strategic projects that would completely address the water and electricity crises and the clinical deficit in hospitals."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out, "The governorate is still suffering from the reluctance of government projects that were referred about 10 years ago, such as the housing intersection bridge, the Hawally Road, school building projects, and others."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sumari affirmed, "Quite a few projects were halted as a result of objections, threats and clan extortion, including the Nasiriyah Stadium, whose implementation engineer was threatened with death by unknown parties recently."[/size]
[size=45]Dhi Qar Governorate, which includes 22 administrative units, 10 of which are adjacent to the marsh areas, faces a severe shortage of basic services, deterioration and aging infrastructure, not to mention a clinical deficit in government hospitals estimated at more than 4,500 beds, and a deficit in school buildings estimated at more than 700 buildings, while the residential areas served by networks do not constitute The sewage system is less than 30% of the aforementioned areas, while the electricity sector suffers from the obsolescence of transmission lines, networks, stations and secondary transformers, which are no longer absorbing the growing loads and facing the risks of melting or explosion of transformers, and there are still dozens of villages that are not served by water and electricity, not to mention the suffering of the residents The governorate, whose number is estimated at more than two million and 320 thousand people, suffers from water scarcity during the summer.[/size]
[size=45]And the Iraqi parliament decided in its numbered session (22) on December 18, 2019 to consider Dhi Qar a stricken city, against the background of the attack launched by the security forces on demonstrators at the end of November of the aforementioned year, which left 50 martyrs and more than 500 wounded in a horrific massacre. It continued over a period of two days (November 28 and 29, 2019), and later became known as the Olive Bridge massacre.[/size]
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