Today, Saturday, the Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia’a Al-Sudani, directed a study to implement the termination of the contracting company’s contract with the Ministry of the Interior, with regard to those seeking driving licenses, in addition to ending the phenomenon of those punished in front of the traffic departments.

The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Yahya Rasool, said in a statement, “The Commander-in-Chief seeks to find the best ways to provide services to citizens and reduce the burden on them in various fields. On 1/14/2023, first: the termination of the contract of the company contracting with the Police Martyrs Fund in the Traffic Directorate, from which an amount of (35,000) thirty-five thousand dinars is deducted in favor of a company upon completion of the transactions.

Also among the directives is “the transfer of road and bridge fees and imports stipulated in Presidency Resolution No. (40) of 2015, which the Traffic Directorate deducts when registering vehicles or transferring their ownership to the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Municipalities and the Municipality of Baghdad in coordination with the Ministry of Finance in order to immediately start rehabilitating roads and bridges and developing Some alternative ways to reduce the traffic congestion that does not result in a financial or legal impact on the state.

And the statement emphasized “terminating the (contract or waiting) by doing the (shake) examination at the present time and stopping the collection of the amount (30,000) thirty thousand dinars, provided that there is no financial or legal impact on the state,” referring to “terminating the contract of the contracting company with the Ministry of Interior, with regard to Driving license applicants, examination and testing procedures) and the Traffic Directorate can provide staff and supplies from its resources to conduct examination and testing instead of collecting an amount of 30,000 dinars from the citizen.

He instructed the Traffic Directorate to “tighten the procedures on stations for the specified weight of carrying vehicles, as they affect the internal and external roads, in addition to strengthening the cadres of the Traffic Directorate with civil servants from the ministry’s joints, whose services have been converted from military to civilian, and the working hours are (morning) and (evening).”

The statement emphasized, “Taking advantage of the registration revenues and fines by the Traffic Directorate, in coordination with the Ministry of Finance, to cover technical needs and daily work requirements without stopping, on the pretext of not renewing the contract with the executing companies, and specifying a percentage of the revenues to the Traffic Directorate within the 2023 budget,” stressing “ending the phenomenon Those who are suspended in front of the traffic departments (permanently), and the withdrawal of forms and the promotion of transactions are by the officers and employees of the Directorate inside the department or the site.

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