Thursday, March 3rd 2011
Iraq plans to provide 10000 job opportunities
Baghdad, The Iraqi Ministry of Education will create ten thousands employment opportunities and it is not enough with the ministry's plan with the increased number of schools for the current year.
A spokesman for the ministry, Walid Hussein, told AKnews that the Ministry of Finance granted the Ministry of Education 16 000 employment opportunities, including ten thousands for teachers.
"The appointment controls were issued from the Ministry of Education and 75% of males and 25% of female will be adopted, according to the appointments controls".
"Provincial directorates of education will submit the applicant's names to the ministry and will adopt voting principle to select the staff."
Iraq has witnessed in the past few days popular demonstrations demanding better services, provide jobs and improve the reality of living, so the government decided to take series of measures to implement the demands of the demonstrators.
The value of the budget approved by the Iraqi parliament on 20 of last February reached 82.6 billion U.S. dollars, including $ 25.7 billion for investments, based on the estimate price of a barrel of oil at $ 76.50, and exports that will reach 2.2 million barrels a day, which is the largest budget in the history of Iraq.
It is expected that the deficit will reach $ 13.4 billion, at a time Iraq depends on oil exports by about 95 per cent to support its budget.
Iraq suffers from dilapidated infrastructure sectors in the overall result of long years of siege and war during the last two decades of the last century.
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