Efforts underway to establish residential units (05/01/05)

Iraqi Minister of Housing & Construction Omar Farouq Al–Damlouji has said that the next two years will witness establishing 35,000 residential units in Iraq.

He added that the ministry had prepared a plan for building and rehabilitating about 310 schools all over Iraq in cooperation with the Iraqi Ministry of Education along with proposals and plans for shifting presidential palaces into cultural and tourism sites as well as establishing three artificial compounds in mid, southern and northern Iraq.

The plan is to rehabilitate Iraqi schools

At a press conference, the minister said that the technical cadres work faithfully for promoting service to meet the needs of the citizens in the current security situation.

Coordination is already underway among companies and boards at the ministry for implementing unfulfilled projects. Most notably, various service projects in different Iraqi sites have been achieved.

Al–Damlouji clarified that distributing forms of lending funds for housing affairs would start next week. Percentages have been allocated for provinces in accordance with housing concentration of the fund's budget. Centres will be opened in all provinces for distributing special forms in this regard.

Source: Iraq Directory