Power grid upgrade project in central Basra

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: A local company on Tuesday completed work on a power grid upgrade project in downtown Basra city at a cost of 966 million Iraqi dinars. “The project will help improve electricity supplies in Basra’a old neighborhoods,” the media director of Basra’s reconstruction unit, Ali Hannoun, told IraqiNews.com news agency. Work on the project lasted six months, Hannoun added. 1 U.S. dollars= 1,118 Iraqi dinars. The Shiite city of Basra lies 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SS (P) 1