Baghdad Unveils Trillion-Dinar Plan to Transform Samarra

Prime Minister Mohammed S. Al-Sudani on Tuesday launched construction works for three major projects across Salah Al-Din Province, including the 1.096 trillion dinar Infrastructure and Development Project of Samarra City, part of the “Samarra: Capital of Iraq for Islamic Civilisation” initiative.

During his visit to Samarra, Al-Sudani also performed pilgrimage rituals at the shrines of Imams Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari and inspected ongoing expansion works at the Al-Askari Holy Shrine.

The Samarra Infrastructure and Development Project will overhaul the city’s essential services, including water and electricity networks, transformer stations, road paving, sidewalks, and street lighting.

Via video conference, Al-Sudani also launched two additional infrastructure initiatives in Salah Al-Din Province: the Beiji–Siniya Water Project, valued at 214 billion dinars, and the Al-Diyum sewage and rainwater network project in Tikrit, worth 93.5 billion dinars.

The Beiji–Siniya project is the first of its kind in the province and part of a broader national infrastructure programme comprising 57 projects across Iraq, valued at 6.5 trillion dinars. Salah Al-Din’s share includes five projects worth 412 billion dinars.

Al-Sudani affirmed the government’s commitment to presenting Samarra “in a manner befitting its historical, Islamic, and global status” and directed the formation of a ministerial team to ensure coordination between relevant departments for the project’s timely completion.

Source: Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office