Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani stressed the continuation of service and strategic projects and the completion of traffic congestion relief projects.
A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office stated: Al-Sudani inaugurated today, Monday, via a television circuit, three important service projects in Baghdad, as follows:
1- The Baghdad City Entrance Project, from the side of the governorates (Diyala – Kirkuk), after its rehabilitation and maintenance with standard specifications for highways, and its expansion from 10m to 16m.
2- The Nahrawan Water Project, southeast of Baghdad, with a production capacity of 4000 m3/hour, which is one of the projects that have been stalled since 2012, and addresses the water shortage in the Nahrawan district.
3- A group of bridges built on the Army Canal east of Baghdad, linking Jamila area towards Al-Jihad Street (Bab Al-Muadham), within the projects of the first package to relieve traffic congestion in the capital, Baghdad.
During the inauguration, he praised t
he efforts of all parties involved in completing these vital projects in the Ministry of Construction and Housing, Baghdad Municipality, Baghdad Governorate, and the implementing companies, stressing the need to expedite the completion of traffic congestion relief projects, in order to achieve a qualitative shift in reconstruction and development projects, since the people of Baghdad bore the burden of congestion and road closures that accompanied these projects. He also stressed the government’s continuation in completing stalled projects, especially vital and strategic projects.
Al-Sudani said: We trust our technical and engineering staff to complete traffic congestion relief projects as soon as possible, and we salute all the teams that contributed to the implementation.
He added that since the beginning of the government’s duties, we have emphasized the file of Baghdad entrances; because of the suffering and harm they represent when entering Baghdad, in addition to traffic accidents and wasted time, and
today we are completing entrance number one, and the rest of the entrances will follow, and we directed Baghdad Municipality and Baghdad Governorate to expedite the completion of the work of the rest of the entrances.
Al-Sudani stressed the need to preserve these roads by adhering to weighing stations and holding violators accountable.
He explained that large sums of money were spent, and as a result of the actions of some truck drivers, these roads are being destroyed.
He stressed that the Nahrawan water project serves more than 350,000 people, and the water scarcity has caused some residents to leave the area.
He continued: We have made the stalled projects a goal in front of us in order to complete them, and we completed the water project after addressing the legal and technical issues, and we also laid the foundation stone a few months ago for a large project in Nahrawan for sewage networks and a treatment plant, in order for the infrastructure in all neighborhoods of Nahrawan to be at a decent level.
Al-Sudani appreciated the efforts of the workers in these three sites, and we are waiting for more, because we promised our people to complete the stalled projects, complete the new projects, and complete the infrastructure.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency