TEHRAN – Based on the next fiscal year budget bill, the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) is allowed to invest $580m through foreign financing for construction of gas transfer pipelines to Sistan-Baluchestan Province by observing articles 13 and 14 of the Fourth Socioeconomic and Cultural Development Plan.

Another clause of the budget bill stipulates that the government may allocate $140m from Forex Reserve Fund (FRF) to upgrade medical equipments at the hospitals, governmental health and treatment clinics, medical laboratories, Blood Transfusion Organization and the Pasteur Institute. Moreover, the Management and Planning Organization (MPO) may dedicate 10,000 billion rials for small water supply projects, dams and conduits with quick return of no more than two years by taking technical, economic and environmental concerns into consideration. Elsewhere in the bill, 120 billion rials is projected for dredging and removing sediments from water basins, creeks and ducts implemented through the related executive offices assigned by agricultural jihad and energy ministries in accordance to priority lists provided by both organizations. PIN/MNA
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