New measures to stimulate the private industrial sector

New measures to stimulate the private industrial sector

2/3/2016 

BAGHDAD - Farah pumice

competent Supreme Committee is working to revise the functions and structure of the Directorate General of Industrial Development at the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, to develop a set of plans and simplified procedures that support the revitalization of the private industrial sector, for the award of the national product, and increase state revenues in the light of the economic conditions experienced out of the country.

The government formed late last year of a supreme committee shall adopt an integrated plan and operating procedures towards reconsider the functions and structure of the Directorate General of Industrial development, in line with the requirements of the stage and provide support and facilitate measures to the advancement of the industrial sector.

according to committee member and representative of the private industrial sector Aqeel al-Saadi, the Commission is examining themes supporting this important sector, and to provide simplified procedures to reduce episodes followed in the previous phases.

As part of the focus of the allocation of land to set up industrial projects, Al-Saadi said in a statement »Sabah», the committee would recommend to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, in order that the government directed the concerned authorities to allocate appropriate land to develop the project.

He added that «this thing is through cooperation between the Industrial development Directorate and Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of municipalities, through a resolution or a government directive to take the necessary measures, in the case of Iqbal industrialists to set up industrial projects», indicating that the problem is that the Industrial development Directorate to not take their role fully, especially it can not provide land to develop projects.

He also said that his committee is seeking to shorten and simplify procedures, including whether the machines for a particular project mounted and ready to work are given the identity of the founding of the plant shows that the project full to give him the opportunity to start working formally, but for the actions of other industrial undertakes to complete it within a period of a year. He stressed Saadi on the need for there to be chock decisions and to create a suitable ground for the establishment of industrial projects and the advancement of the industrial sector, as it has been taking a series of decisions and follow a series of measures, application and implementation of the legislator laws and government decisions, topped the priority of the Commission in coordination with the departments concerned to overcome the obstacles facing the industrial sector. As for transforming the sex of agricultural land to industrial, and he said that his committee is facing difficulties in the response of some departments and ministries involved in this field in order to develop solutions and plans that contribute to support industrial projects.

He saw the reluctance of the industrial sector was caused by the previous governments which have contributed to stopping industrial projects and flooding decisions markets products imported poor quality, which led to the decline of this vital sector, which was contributing to the amount of 14 percent of GDP by 2003, while contributing to the present time by 1 percent, in addition to the reluctance of the electricity sector and the non-allocation of fuel at subsidized prices, led to the its decline and its inability to compete with the importer. Saadi He noted that the government's orientations towards the advancement of the industrial sector in order to reduce dependence on oil revenues to support the general budget of the country, especially as this sector employs the largest number of manpower and all disciplines, believing that the drop in oil prices in a healthy world for Iraq in order to reconsider and go towards national industries and revitalize the industrial sector on the part of, and that the Iraqi individual reconsider the consumer culture of the other.

the member of the Commission to translate the works of government committees in the media and to highlight their work and plans and decisions taken to constitute a state of contentment for the Iraqi people, as well as highlight the actors uncooperative. And directed the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers upon the Prime Minister and approval of the recommendations of the workshop the private industrial sector reform, the Municipality of Baghdad and the provinces to develop plans necessary to activate the work of the industrial cities and procedures by encouraging the owners of crafts and projects to move gradually into the cities, as well as finance, agriculture and ministries to amend the decisions and instructions converting the genus land is arable farming and restricted to industrial for the purpose to utilize them in the field of industrial development.

revealed the Ministry of Industry and minerals last week on the implementation of 75 percent of the work of the three phases of the project industrial city of Basra, an area of 200 acres divided between (60) divided by the industrially including equivalent to 1250 square meters per divided according to stomach engineering designs and within the financial allocations earmarked for each phase, attributed the causes of interruption or postponement of the completion of some work any stage to the overlap and intersection with the work of the next stage and the emergence of technical problems requiring Add extended periods other for the purpose of achievement, confirmed the possibility of completion of the project once and for all during the six-month period only if the launch of the remaining allocated to the project and the amount of financial amounts (35) billion dinars.