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To rebuild the roads of Dubis and Prde districts, 341 million and 500 thousand Iraqi dinars have been allocated on the provincial reconstruction budget. The project should be finished in 30 days. Muhamad Nadir, chief of the Prde town council said, “The project is going on right now on the budget dedicated to Prde and Dubis.” The project contains all the roads. Kirkuk Company is undertaking the project and has promised to finish it in 30 days.
The project is to pave and rebuild the roads and streets of Dubis and Prde. Mahmood Tofiq, an engineer from Kirkuk Company said, “We started working and promise to finish it on its time.”

Sabah Majeed, a resident of Prde hoped the project would finish soon, and said that “Prde needs it very much because few streets are paved.”



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Kirkuk Governor Nejmadin Karim said Hadi al-Amri, Minister of the Ministry of Transportation (MoT) would visit Kirkuk to check on the plans for building a civilian airport here.


Karim said, “The MoT minister has promised to visit Kirkuk in order to accelerate the process of building a civilian airport and developing the transportation sector in Kirkuk.” The Kirkuk governor met with the MoT minister last month to discuss the possibility of building a civilian airport.

It was decided that the civilian airport is to replace the current Huriya (Azadi) airport which was used from 2003 to November of 2011 as a US troops base. “The Kirkuk administration will start forming an expert committee from relevant directorates and the Kirkuk Provincial Council (KPC) to start the project,” according to Kirkuk’s governor.

The KPC unanimously decided to change the Hurriya airport to a civilian airport in November of 2011 and hand its control over to the security forces of the province.


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The Shwan Factory to produce Oil, Gas and Asphalt Factory is urging the governor of Kirkuk Nejmadin Karim to provide them with 5 thousand tons of crude oil, so they can in return produce 150 megawatts of electricity for Kirkuk.

Shwan Aziz, the owner of the factory said, “We have written to the Kirkuk governor asking him to offer 5 thousand tons of crude oil, so we can produce 150 megawatts of power and solve the issue of a lack of electricity in Kirkuk.”

After Shwan’s call, the governor of Kirkuk asked a committee from Iraq’s Ministry of Oil (MoO) and Ministry of Industry (MoI) to come and investigate the subject. The committee came on February 1 to report on the subject. “If the committee approves, we should be provided with 5 thousand tons of crude oil and we will produce 150 megawatts of power to Kirkuk,” Aziz said.

Shwan Factory has 500 employees, including engineers, workers, and experts. The factory has yet to provide details concerning the mechanism of producing the promised power. “The committee’s investigation finished yesterday evening and they like the company’s capability and place,” Aziz said.

Kirkuk Now reported that both Baghdad and Erbil reduced 50 megawatts of electricity. Kirkuk’s governor urged the KRG to continue providing the province with 250 megawatts of power.

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The Director of Youth and Sports in Kirkuk has unveiled their plan to build a sports’ city in Kirkuk in 2012.

Jabar Muhamad Ibrahim, director of Youth and Sports in Kirkuk said, “The Iraqi Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS) has allocated 630 billion Iraqi dinars to build several sports projects in the province, which can help sports flourish in Kirkuk.”

Stadium is the name of the sports city to be built in the Shwan area in Kirkuk this year. 450 billion ids have been allocated to the project, along with 25 billion ids to build two stadiums with global standards. The stadiums are to be built in the south of Kirkuk, with one of them able to contain 5,000 and the other 7,000 fans to all kinds of sports activities practiced in Kirkuk. The latter project contains two closed halls, a health station, and a youth centre.

On May 16, 2011, Ibrahim said that the MoYS was going to build a sports city in Kirkuk with 450 billion ids. Kirkuk can become a harbor of sports in Iraq for local and regional sports events. The Kirkuk Youth and Sports Directorate have done many sports projects in cooperation with the Iraqi MoYS and on the budget of Kirkuk.


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The North Oil Company decided to allocate 17 billion Iraqi dinars in service projects in Kirkuk, while people complain that they have long been waiting to no avail.

Kameran Ali, a 23 year-old resident of Kirkuk believed the timing is not right for such a decision, and that “If this company (NOC) were to decide this at the beginning, Kirkuk would not need any reconstruction projects then.”

Sirwan Fatah, 38, also complained that the company has employed a low portion of Kurds, saying that “There’s injustice in employment since the portion of Kurds is very low.” He urged urgent investigation into the issue, saying that “I’ve been trying to work there for three years, but no response had come back.”

Jasim Khidhir, 49, also believed the company polluted Kirkuk, stating “The company polluted Kirkuk’s air, without doing any projects. Even if they do so, it should not be appreciated since it’s their duty.” He believed the company should serve Kirkuk better, and that “They should return what should have been done for Kirkuk in the past.”

Kirkuk officials also repeated the concerns of people. Kamil Salaiyie, district commissioner of Kirkuk said the company has not done any projects since its foundation 80 years ago, and “also it was asked to do so many times,” Salaiyie said.

Salaiyie said they have urged them to launch some projects formally, stating that “They promised but did not realize it.” After an investigation by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil (MoO) the NOC decided to allocate 17 billion ids to service projects according to Salaiyie, although just 4 billion ids were received. “The other portion will be received soon,” Salaiyie said.

The Kirkuk district commissioner also said they have told NOC about the Kurd’s employment portion in the company, and they promised to solve the problem.

Karim Muhamad, Ahmed Shwani

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08/02/2012 14:46

KIRKUK, Feb.8 (AKnews) - The foundation stone of a five star hotel and shopping center was laid in Kirkuk today, the first project of its kind in the city.

The mall and hotel, at a cost of $31.58m (36.8tr IQD), will be built over three years by the Rekan Firm based, based in Kurdistan, and various Turkish companies.

Kirkuk, 250km northeast of Baghdad, is still in urgent need of investment to reconstruct the ruined infrastructure of the city, destroyed by years of war and government negligence.

Rekan Group (The company who built New City Mall and Mega Mall and Green Land in Erbil) located and replaced the Current Kirkuk Baho Building

By Abdullah Ameri

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17/02/2012 08:17

KIRKUK, Feb.17 (AKnews)- For the self-sufficiency of Kirkuk province in generating the required electricity three power plants will be installed in the province soon.

westgai karabaFuad Hussein, a member of Kirkuk Provincial Council, said the decision was made recently after deputy for electricity minister met Kirkuk Council.

An Iranian company will install two plants of 196MWs in Dubiz parish, and a South Korean company the other plant of 293MW in Taza parish. The project costs $160 million USD.

"With installing these three plants, Kirkuk electricity shortage will get over and we will not need the power from Baghdad," Hussein added.

BY Jamshid Zangana

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With a budget of 450 billion Iraqi dinars, the largest Sport City will be built on 150 acres of land in Kirkuk. The project has been approved by the Council of Ministers.

The project first formed under Abdulrahman Mustafa, former Governor of Kirkuk, and was handed to the Minister of Councils. The Council of Ministers approved the project on February 26.

Jabar Muhamad, director of the Kirkuk Sports Directorate (KSD) said, “The project was offered in the time of the former governor in August of 2011, but we have responded now.” The project is to be implemented with 450 billion ids on 150 acres of land. Muhamad added, “We’ll announce the implementing company in one or two days, which will begin building the facility next month.”

The location of the project is on the Kirkuk-Erbil road, near Shwan T-junction. The project is supposed to be implemented in three years, with all its stadiums, closed halls, 5-star hotels, cafés and restaurants.


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March 07, 2012

In the Kirkuk Administrations plans for 2012, 518 service projects were listed to be implemented with one trillion and 600 billion Iraqi dinars estimated as the province’s budget.

According to Kirkuk Now information, the estimated budget of Kirkuk in 2012, both from the Provincial Reconstruction budget and Petro-dollar combined, is to be 598 billion ids. It has been decided to realize 518 projects which are to be implemented through the two budgets. Qasim Bayati, a member of the Kirkuk Provincial Council (KPC) confirmed the news saying Kirkuk will witness "dramatic changes" in 2012.

According to the allocated budget for road construction Bayati said, “The allocated budget for our directorate is more than 80 billion ids.” The road projects for 2012 include enlarging the Dubis road and repairing Manizla road. The estimated budget is the largest budget which has ever been allocated to Kirkuk.

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