By John Lee.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has chaired a special meeting to review progress on the Ali Al-Wardi Residential City (City of Roses / Madinat al-Ward), located southeast of Baghdad, amid concerns over administrative and technical delays.
The meeting was attended by the Baghdad Governor, representatives from the Ministries of Construction, Housing, Municipalities and Public Works, Electricity, the New Cities Authority, several advisers, and representatives of the implementing company.
Discussions focused on key obstacles facing the project, including administrative and technical issues, the main access road linking to Baghdad, the surrounding ring road, water and electricity connections, infrastructure routing, and the treatment of drainage channels around the project site.
The Prime Minister stressed the importance of the project as one of the principal responses to Baghdad's housing shortage, given the capital's high population density. He directed that rapid solutions be found to overcome obstacles and that implementation proceed in line with approved specifications, with the aim of reaching completion.
Mr al-Sudani also instructed the formation of a high-level committee, chaired by the Minister of Construction, Housing, Municipalities and Public Works, and including relevant ministries and Baghdad provincial departments. The committee will examine the causes of delays, propose legal, administrative, and technical solutions, and set a binding timetable to implement those solutions and commence the first phase of the project.
The 120,000-housing-unit project is being developed by Egypt's ORA Real Estate Development.
(Source: PMO)
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