30 July 2019
Iraq has invited bids for the construction of 65 new schools in the Eastern Wasit governorate at a cost of 70 billion Iraqi dinars ($59 million).

The project also includes the construction of separate halls and furnished laboratories and is intended to ease pressure on existing schools, the official daily Alsabah said, quoting Wasit's governor Mohammed Al Miyahi.

He said 20 schools would be built in the provincial capital Kut while the others are located in various parts of the governorate.

"We will not award this project to companies that had failed to execute similar projects on time or had not abided by project quality," he said.

(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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