6 service projects in Karbala

KARBALA / IraqiNews.com: Six service projects of a total cost of 2.548 billion Iraqi dinars (roughly $2 million) were approved for implementation on Sunday, according to a local official. “The projects will be hopefully finalized by local firms in six months’ time,” Abbas Nasser Hassani, the Karbala Provincial Council’s Reconstruction & Strategic Planning Committee Chairman, told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The projects include the completion of a health center in Jannaja village at ID227.75 million, two projects to manufacture pipes for a water supply department at ID1.757 billion and another one to pave the 850-meter-long al-Abid street at ID119.680 million,” Hassani added. The holy Shiite city of Karbala lies 110 km southwest of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P)/SR 2