German companies offer housing units in Karbala

KARBALA / IraqiNews.com: German companies offered to implement 1,000 low-cost housing units within an integrated housing neighborhood project for a total cost of $16.5 million, a local spokesman said on Saturday. “A delegation representing a German consortium offered to Karbala Governor Amal al-Din al-Hirr and Provincial Council Chief Muhammad Hameed al-Moussawi a project of 1,000 low-cost housing units, each consisting of three rooms,” Emad Muhammad Hussein, the Karbala Province’s information director, told IraqiNews.com news agency. For his part, the chairman of the board of the German consortium said the delegation was acquainted on conditions in the city and was encouraged to offer readiness to implement the project, which would take place near the green belt southwest of Karbala city. “The contract will be signed during the next few days to start the project by German technicians while the working hands will be Iraqi,” he added. The holy Shiite city of Karbala lies 180 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 2