A local company embarked on carrying out a number of service projects in the city of Arbil at a cost of 1 billion Iraqi dinars (ID), tantamount to $833,000, as appropriated from the provincial development budget, Governor Nawzad Hadi said on Sunday.
“The company 99 for Public Contracting has started implementing pavement of a 4-km-long road in the newly established area of Ba-har in addition to sewage works and other service projects,” Hadi told Aswat al-Iraq.
“The new area, in eastern Arbil, is planned to have all the necessary services in a way coping with the urban development in the province,” he said.
Arbil, the capital city of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, lies 360 km north of Baghdad.( Voices of Iraq )