Infrastructure & Finance news in South Kurdistan

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Ali Hamadi, technical assistant of the Kirkuk governor revealed that the Iraqi planning ministry has dedicated 525 billion Iraqi dinars ($4.44 billion) from the province reconstruction budget, also known as the petro-dollar budget, to Kirkuk.

Hamadi told Summariya News that they have set up several strategic projects after being informed about the dedicated portion of the petro-dollar budget to Kirkuk.

Previously the Iraqi parliament decided that each barrel of crude oil and each 150 cubic meters of natural gas would gain one dollar to the province where it was produced. The decision was made under article 43 of the Iraqi constitution.

Hamadi said, “the Kirkuk administration has strategic projects in the health, electricity, roads and services sectors.” He also explained that an envoy will visit Kirkuk soon to discuss the methods of distribution and usage of the budget.

Hamadi believes that the province will be witnessing a quality change after implementing these projects, especially in rebuilding the infrastructure. Over the recent years Kirkuk has suffered considerably because of the lack of budget.

The Iraqi government decides on the province reconstruction budget through the finance ministry; then the planning ministry will decide on the portion of the provinces according to the size of the population and needs necessity of each province.

The portion of Kirkuk in the petro-dollar budget for last year was 115 billion Iraqi dinars, but the officials insisted that the portion was not enough for any strategic projects in the province.

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Grand project to bring modern tourist amenities to Safeen Mountain in Shaqlawa

Resort villages, green zones, sports facilities and other projects planned for one of the Region's finest tourism areas.

A tourist village, entertainment facilities, and the protection of and increase in green areas are the main elements of a master plan for a modern tourist project on top of Safeen Mountain of Shaqlawa, 50 kilometers northeast of Erbil.

Studies and design stages are complete; now the Ministry of Municipality and Tourism of the Kurdistan Regional Government is ready to hand over the project to a company. Several companies from Canada, Nederland, Poland, EAU, Kuwait, Turkey, and other European countries as well as a number of local companies have shown interest in the project.

Such projects in Kurdistan are carried out as part of the building of an economic infrastructure and also for protecting the environment, according to Samir Abdulla, KRG Minister of Municipalities and Tourism. "The KRG has identified tourism as a major driving force for the economic development of the Region," said the minister, noting that they are seriously working on -protecting the wilderness and nature of the mountains."

The Safeen Mountain tourist project includes a resort village; it is designed to occupy only 9.5% of the land dedicated for the project. The rest of the land will be devoted to agriculture, protected wilderness areas and to the construction of plenty of leisure areas, according to the minister. He added: "The site will also accommodate sports facilities, picnic areas, and a Mountain Tourist Resort." Total costs are expected to reach $1 billion.

The Safin Mountain Project is going to be bind by two teleferiks--one from Shaqlawa, and the other from the small town of Kore. "Safin Mountain is located exactly in center of Kurdistan Region, making it more viable for people to come," said Abdulla

The elevation of the mountains is 1500-1900 meters, and its maximum summer temperature reaches 25 centigrade, relatively low for the Middle East. The temperature of the mountain's top is 13 degrees less than Erbil and 6 degrees less than Shaqlawa. "The mountains are free of pollution because it is relatively distant from major urban areas," Abdulla noted.

The government is supplying electricity and water and creating roads to the project. Waste water of the project will be used to irrigate plants and trees. There is a plan in the village to create an extensive central park with water areas. Around the park will be 500 residential buildings with units that might be for sale or rent, accommodation for local and international tourists staying short or long periods, commercial and community facilities for residents and tourists, and comprehensive leisure and tourist facilities.

The minister said they may expand this project further and build another village if there is space on the mountain. "We would like to make the project four-seasonal, and provide recreation for mountain climbing, skiing, and other seasonal sports."

The project aims to have almost 73% wilderness area. "We are insisting that 75% of the project must be green, and the remaining 25% becomes buildings. The companies are asking for 60% green and 40% buildings."

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a source from board of investment announced that total number of investments forwarded to them fro approval hit 400 which amounts to 2 $billion for this year . he said the projects include sectors of health , tourism , trade and industrial , he also said it includes both local and non-local .

aknews.com

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According to the board of investments , new conditions and procedures have been announced for companies working in building sectors in KRG . one of the which is the company must provide insurance of 3% of total project cost to the board after completion of the project 50% will be returned to the company . the 2nd one is the company wont have its contract signed unless it first signs a contract with a consultory agent which will manage and follow the quality , well management and completion of the project in terms of engineering aspect is concerned .

Another part of the new conditions is , the project wont be signed unless all services with the help of related departments have been provided first , like water roads electricity .

http://www.pukm1.com/Detail.aspx?id=7992&LinkID=3

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under a new decision by KRG PM office , $3000 will be given to the old bus owners in return they will receive a new bus which will be repaid $500 per month .the new model of the buses are Nissan and Kia.
according to the transport office in Suli , there are 1800 buses in the province of which only 700 remains of lower models.

http://www.pukm1.com/Detail.aspx?id=7995&LinkID=3

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Cultivation for the Kurdistan declares French project to provide water for drinking and agriculture

The Ministry of Agriculture in the Kurdistan Region that the French government agreed to support a project to provide water for agriculture and drinking more than one million euros.

The Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources Government of the Region Jamil Suleiman, in a press statement, «has been approved by the French government to support a project to provide water for agriculture and drinking one million and 450 thousand euros in the region, in two phases», indicating that «the first stage is the study of river basin Zab To learn how to use the water in the area of ​​drinking water projects and irrigation projects, large Phase II study of water in the governorates of Erbil and Slemani ».

Solomon added that «the amount of support for the first phase was 700 thousand euros», indicating that «the first phase of the project will end in about October of this year».

For its part, the representative said company Canal de French executed the project (Alice Harbits) «We started Bdrasatna almost a year ago, and put a lot of plans guaranteed to raise a large amount of water in the Kurdistan Region, to its importance to the region and Iraq in general, and we are continuing it, so we study building dams on the Zab, and take advantage of that water for drinking and for irrigating ».

She stressed that her organization Harbits «have plans to put an end to the waste of water in Iraq in general and especially in the region, and also to take advantage of them to generate electric power».

In turn, the captain geologists in the Kurdistan Region Dlania Mohammed on the importance of water use, and said «we lose down 100 MW of energy that can be generated from the waters of the Great Zab, and this means that the water that is happening is a power we lose it unless we're working on the project» .

Ali said «it is very important that we use water for power generation instead of focusing on oil, money fast».

Iraq relies, primarily, in the access to electricity to stations that work with gas, oil, except for some minor projects. In the Kurdistan Region there was a project Dokan and Darbandikhan to generate electricity from water, but the two projects presented, making the authorities in the region rely on gas stations and oil. Kahrbaúatan stations.

http://pukmedia.co.uk/kurdistanregion/2 ... 7-06-27-27

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Organized company (BOCP) Czech own designs through the cities and the Committee on its own. Symposium an extensive modernization project design of the city of Khanaqin (Master Plan), was attended by Mohammed Mulla Hassan Mayor Khanaqin and Samir Mohammed Noor, President of the Municipal Council and directors of the presidency and the Municipality of Khanaqin and Director of the Office of the Commission of Article 140 in Khanaqin and heads and representatives of official circles in the city as well as specialists from the Kurdistan region.

Said Hashim Rustam Administrative and Financial Director of the company and the coordinator and supervisor for the project to modernize Khanaqin's PUKmedia, that the company (BOCP) consisting of three international companies, Czech, Dutch, Canadian, embarked on a project for the basic design of the city of Khanaqin, and added that the first phase of the project began in the eighth month of the year 2010 and for the past three months, where they were collecting full information about the service sectors, residential, and urban and industrial .. Etc. In the second phase offered that information on foreign experts in the company carried out, where it was studied and analyzed to partial information, so come to view the three design alternatives of design, can work either singly over thirty years.

He said we are now we are going to discuss the project in its second phase, as we have three design alternatives in order to choose a Khanaqin them. Adding: Although we signed a contract with the province of Diyala, but for the people of Khanaqin right to choose the most appropriate, they are aware of other Bashaab their city. That is why the company takes into account the views and proposals of Gentlemen, especially if concentrated in favor of the basic design of the city. So we hope that the children choose the most appropriate alternative Khanaqin and sing the seminar with new ideas and effective so that we can access to the design and ideally keep pace with contemporary developments in the world. And raised a big debate over the three designs by the Department of Khanaqin and gentlemen concerned, who saw that it does not meet the aspirations of the city did not come with new it did not take into account their special character.

In this regard, said Eng. Shukria Ali Ahmed, chairman of Engineers Civil Engineering in charge of the Division of Construction of Qaúmmqamih Khanaqin's PUKmedia: consider this congress Typically, for a project design and update Khanaqin, whereby the administration of Khanaqin and the municipal council and stakeholders aware of this historic project, which serves the city of Khanaqin and her children for the next thirty years, In order to show decision-makers from representatives of the departments, engineers, and class elitism their views and contribute to the maturation of the project. She added: We believe that this project and in this way does not serve the city for thirty years, he is not integrated, said that specialists have expressed their opinions and observations focused in this direction, and stressed that the management of Khanaqin and the municipal council and service departments and concerned expressed Thfeztha on design updated by the Czech company, said there points should be taken into account and reported as an example when she said that the city and the special status of being located within the provisions of Article 140 of the Constitution, she engineered Shukria that the design did not take into account also the steady growth and increasing population have not seen the strategic projects and future, and the architect said Shukria should Municipality Khanaqin more interested in design, in principle, but we as a division in the reconstruction Alqaúmmqamih limited role in coordination with the Municipality of Khanaqin Ousour to see effective and comprehensive agreed and are very clearly in terms of the proposals. She said: if I want to write the project's success and serving the city, you must re-design on the basis of taking into account the proposals made to the Company by representatives of technicians, specialists and administrators Khanaqin. Confirmed that Alqaúmmqamih follow with great interest the steps of the project and the person of Mayor of the judiciary.

For his part, Ibrahim Shah Mohammed, director of municipal Khanaqin's PUKmedia, the lack of integration, or maturity of the project to modernize the design of Khanaqin, according to the standards desired and referred to by the representatives of the Department of Khanaqin during the seminar, expressing regret that the province of Diyala, as the Contracting Authority with the Czech company did not take into account the active involvement of professionals and the concerned Khanaqin in the draft of the (Master Plan Khanaqin), adding: "with profound regret the Diyala province, the development of the oversight committee composed of experts in the provincial council and the University of Diyala while would be good to include experts genuine from Khanaqin in the project as theirs Paramount. " He said, "We have observations and clarifications great on many issues, as opposed to the alternatives, and in general has been we have expressed our views on many points Kalmessahh which occupied the design as we have demanded that the space is Khanaqin 100 square kilometers as the current size of 25 km, but they have allocated 50 km, They want so deducted vast areas of Khanaqin, The Director of Municipal Khanaqin to they have seen significant changes in design, only replace the sites of some services somehow, and added that the project Taiba fundamental questions did not give adequate space for industrial zones and commercial centers to ease the burden on the Centre, and and the location of the refinery presumably in an inappropriate place, and said that we demanded Street around and trade hubs, especially with Iran and a green belt around the city. as there are distortions in the railway assumed, and said I would like to point out a very important point is the design does not mimic the special character of the city whether it is agricultural or industrial or commercial , although it is an agricultural city because of the many villages around the commercial and also being a border city as well as the industrial presence of oil in it. At the conclusion of his statement, the Ibrahim Shah Mohammed hoped to lift all the comments and proposals made by the Department of Khanaqin and representatives of professionals and stakeholders to the center of a company ( BOCP) in order to study more deeply and to take into consideration the aspirations of the citizens of the city and its distinctive character in order to ensure a perfect design keep pace with modern developments and over the next thirty years.

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water and agricultural department announced 6 more type of produce have been banned to be imported as now local produce meets the requirement.

they are cucumber , sun flower , pepper , Zucchini and eggplant .

he said in a new future the following ones will be also banned;

fig , Okra , beans , tomato , onion , wet beans , watermelon , grape , peach , pomegranate , potato , lettuce and Cauliflower

http://www.aknews.com/ku/aknews/2/265932/

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so there is a Kurdistan airline !?? i also know there are currently students studying in aviation in all aspects funded by KRG to open a Kurdish official airline in the future .



http://www.airkurdistan-online.com/

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SULAIMANI, Iraqi Kurdistan -- Iraqi Kurdistan has launched a US$5 million plan to boost tourism by building resorts and tourist infrastructure in the region’s three provinces.

This plan aims to compensate for years of neglect of the sector, according to officials.

Mawlawi Jabar, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) tourism department, told Rudaw, “The government plans to build around 40 tourist resorts in all three of the Kurdistan Region’s provinces, as well as a massive resort project on Safin Mountain.”

According to Jabar, more than half of the projects will be built in Sulaimani province which boasts many beautiful natural resorts.

The projects will include service centers and accommodations in villages in Garmian, Halabja, Rania, Dukan, and Qashqolly.

Erbil province’s popular mountainous holiday resorts such as Rawanduz, Shqlawa and Choman will also be revamped under the plan.

Jabar said, “My department intends to build a tourism museum and a resort village for treating skin diseases along with other advanced resort villages in Erbil next year.”

Kurdistan is home to several natural springs where locals and tourists from across Iraq visit the year round.

Among the biggest projects is the resort community in Safin Mountain, Erbil province. Jabar told Rudaw, “It will be similar in size and beauty to Sharm el-Sheikh resort in Egypt.”

According to Jabar, a Lebanese company has offered the blueprint for the project and another company will build the project.

The Kurdistan Region’s stability and security has over the past several years drawn tens of thousands of tourists from Iraq and neighboring Iran. Last year alone, more than 150,000 tourists visited the Kurdistan region, according to tourism department officials.

However, the lack of housing and particularly rest areas for the massive flood of travelers --especially in the summer and spring seasons -- has been a major challenge for Kurdistan authorities and tourists. Now, according to Jabar, rest areas and travel guides will be built across Kurdistan as part of the new master plan.

“We intend to build rest areas all over Kurdistan including in small towns and villages by next year,” Jabar said. “We will build rest areas every 20 kilometers. The rest areas will have maps and guides in different languages and include cafés, car maintenance and restrooms. We will build rest areas on every main road between the cities and towns.”

According to tourism department officials, Kurdistan authorities aim to bring at least 5 million tourists to the region annually by 2016.

Jabar said that based on feedback from foreign tourists, the Kurdish government may introduce horse tracks, golf courses and swimming pools.

An official from Sulaimani’s local administration who spoke to Rudaw on condition of anonymity praised these projects but he blamed some government officials for affecting the tourism sector.

“The land in most beautiful natural resorts has been occupied by officials where they have built their villas,” said the official who asked to remain anonymous. “If the land in Qaradax and Sytak weren’t taken, they could have been the most suitable places for tourism projects. But now the government has to use other lands for the projects.”

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PNA 19.10.2011

After an investigation it has been revealed that in KRG there are 4000 shops that sell medications and are not certified licensed pharmacies . for this matter Health Ministry has sent a request to interior ministry to issue the order to closed unlicensed Medicine selling shops and from now on only the licensed medicines can sell medications to people.

the speaker of health ministry Dr. Xalis Qadir announced around 4000 nurse and Doctor assistants sell medicines which is not legitimate and they are not allowed to do so. he said: to solve this issue which most of them are located in ally ways in the suburbans , Health ministry has sent a request to the interior ministry to have the entire shops closed down.

he stated that after these shops are closed down only licensed and certified medicines to run the pharmacies and sell medications to people, who have graduated from Uni with a medicine degree , he said this will stop the illegal distribution of medications in KRG.

source: Peyamner.com

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22-10-2011
Representatives of 88 British companies working in the fields of higher education , water treatment, oil and gas, engineering and architectural consulting, financial, IT and telecommunications services. arrived in Kurdistan Region to participate in 7th annual Erbil International Trade Fair which will kick off on October 24 and will last for 3 days.

The delegation is headed by Mr. Nazm Zahawi the Kurdish origin member of the British Parliament.

PUKmedia.com

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PNA-Erbil, The 7th session of the Erbil International Fair was opened in Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan Region on Monday, with the attendance of Kurdistan President, Massoud Barzani, its Prime Minister, Dr.Barham Salih, as well as 850 companies from 20 states.

"The 7th session of Erbil International Fair is attended by 850 foreign companies, ," Dr.Salih said in his opening speech."Beginning in 2005 up until now, the Kurdistan Region has witnessed about 50 international fairs.

This is only further evidence of the economic developing now taking place in Kurdistan," Saleh said.

For his part, the Director General of IFT Company, organizing the Fair, Antuane Aun, said that the "Exhibition had witnessed a major traticipation by international companies, specialized in transportation, health, education, construction, agriculture and trade."

Aun told Aswat al-Iraq news agency: "Each year we notice an increase in the number of companies, participate in the Fair, along with the areas covered by different companies.