According to <i>Al-Zamman</i> newspaper, a source at the Ministry of Municipality and Public Works revealed that the Ministry's Urban Planning Department had allocated ID 7 billion to prepare designs and studies for building new cities in different Iraqi districts.
The same source added that the ministry's engineering companies had completed the designs to modernizing the historical, religious and tourist Iraqi cities of Al-Kut, Mosel, Irbil, Najaf, Karbalaa and Basra. The source added that $100 million was allocated to finance the design plans fo these important Iraqi cities.
