9th Cabinet of Kurdistan Region Government total achievements, services to public

Supporting both public and private sectors to create and/ or enhance the ties between the government and people in the state, as a result, to rebuild the trust bond between the government and people, also re-filling the gaps and getting the public back from the brink have been an arduous journey.

A sample of a motorway in Kurdistan Region during the 9th Cabinet of KRG. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
A sample of a motorway in Kurdistan Region during the 9th Cabinet of KRG. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The services and issues that the 9th Cabinet of the regional government in Kurdistan focused on were reducing traffic jams, road accidents, major roads and highways, trading and commercial sector, industrialization, tourism, transports, commuting, as well as extensively on highways construction to connect between cities, towns and countryside. 

Depending on the statistics, the projects operated within the cities during the Ninth Cabinet, are 1967 projects, which cost 1 trillion, 863 billion dinars.

Supporting both public and private sectors to create and/ or enhance the ties between the government and people in the state, as a result, to rebuild the trust bond between the government and people, also re-filling the gaps and getting the public back from the brink have been an arduous journey.

According to the statistics and governmental media department, the total number of new bridges and road projects worked on, outside the cities, during the Ninth Cabinet, are 585 projects.

It is understood that from those 585 projects, 75 are strategic projects with 1363 kilometers long, and a budget estimated as 930 billion dinars.

Despite of the fact that the whole greater region in the Middle East went through instability and turmoil for decades, yet in Kurdistan Region, strengthening the infrastructure of the region, reconciliating with all the levels in the wider community within the region went through gruelling, and was fruitful.  

Giving a numerical glance to those projects: 

Erbil-Duhok Highway, 86 kilometers long, a budget 399 billion dinars, Spilk-Khalifan highway with a length 8.5 km, dedicated cost 64 billion dinars.

Pirmam Tunnel, 2.5 km long, budget 189 billion dinars, Darbandi Rania Bridge, 400m with 12 billion dinars spent on.

The 900m Zey Gawra Bridge long, did cost 43 billion dinars, furthermore, a 25-km Kalar-Kafri motorway cost 43 billion dinars, also the 26 km Baadre-Etit dual carriageway budget was 135 billion dinars.

Classifying in capital city Erbil 

150m highway of the Erbil-Koya highway, that cost 582 billion and 100 million dinars,

120m motorway in Erbil, did cost a 127 billion dinar,

150m motorway between Bahrka-Duhok, with a budget 197 billion and 700 million Dinar,

A project is connecting Duhok road to the 120m through Gazna, cost 9 billion dinars.

In Duhok, it’s as follows: 

The first and second phases of the Malta U-Turn Overpass and Underpass, with a length estimated 6000 meters, providing access to Barzan Road.

The dedicated budget for that plan was 33 billion and 700 million dinars,

As well as a number of other local projects in the city, were more than 5 km long, did cost 68 billion and 100 million dinars.

In Sulaimani province, the projects were:

100m Road, designated budget was 428 billion and 500 million dinars,

Aram Junction, cost 10 billion and 300 million dinars,

Farouq Junction, with a budget 7 billion and 300 million dinars,

Wali Junction, cost 6 billion dinars,

Bakhtiary Junction with a budget 12 billion and 900 million dinars,

Hapsa Khani Naqib Junction, cost 5 billion and 600 million dinars.

Furthermore, worth mentioning, during the Ninth Cabinet period, all road engineering work was given to teams in the Ministry of Interior instead of the foreign companies.

For 2 years, a diagram and map were designed for 500 km, in addition to 15 thousand traffic signs, and around 40 km, metal-barriers installed on the roads. 

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