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Adnan Al-Sarraj, the Prime Minister’s advisor for education affairs, announced a two-pronged plan to build 14,000 school buildings through investment, while explaining the mechanism for paying the costs .
Al-Sarraj said, “Iraq needs 9,600 schools, and within the next two years it may need …” 12 thousand thousand schools,” noting that “proposals were put forward and approved by the Prime Minister, including the construction of 4,000 schools through the Iraq Development Fund, announcing the allocation of sites for 400 of them to be completed within two years .”
He added, “The construction of these schools is done by investors after a plot of land is provided to them by the government. They also carry out maintenance and equip the school with trips and blackboards. After completion, the state rents it for 15 years, and ownership returns to the state after the expiration of the period .”
He pointed out that “there is another proposal to build 10,000 schools by having investors build and equip the schools, and the state pays sums for each student in the school to the investor .”
