Immigration ministry counts the number of displaced families remaining in the camps

Baghdad -INA
, today, Tuesday, the Ministry of Immigration and Displacement counted the number of displaced families currently remaining in the camps, while indicating that the ministry's financial allocations are not sufficient to cover the disbursement of the grant allocated to all returnees from the displaced.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Immigration, Karim Al-Nouri, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The number of displaced people in the interior and the Kurdistan region is about 29 thousand families, and abroad is about 4 thousand families," indicating that "the ministry closed all camps except for Al-Jada camp in Nineveh and Amiriyat Al-Fallujah camp." In addition to the 26 camps in the Kurdistan region that include the displaced from Sinjar and the areas surrounding the city of Mosul, where the Ministry is making understandings with the region to coordinate the voluntary return of the rest of the displaced to their homes.
He added that "there are some IDPs who do not want to return to their cities for service reasons, tribal problems, or the demolition of homes and others," noting that "they can go to other areas, because life will be better for them than staying in the camps."
Al-Nouri added that "the 2021 budget has allocated 85 billion dinars to the ministry, of which 13 billion are operational and the rest of 72 billion dinars is not enough for one-tenth of what they returned to their areas from the displaced, so the ministry called on the government to increase its allocations to fulfill its obligations towards the returnees from the displaced and encourage the displaced in the camps to return." Voluntary ", pointing out that" the ministry has opened international aid organizations to provide support to the displaced in the event of their return, and called on the region to cooperate for the return of the displaced to their homes. " 
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Immigration affirmed that "Minister of Immigration, Evan Faeq, has made exceptional efforts and succeeded in achieving the government program to a high degree, and knocked on the doors to obtain funds to support the returning displaced persons. She is also keen to hold accountable anyone who tries to abuse the money of the displaced. And the returning families as well, ”stressing that“ the ministry seeks to attract all Iraqi energies and competencies abroad and facilitate the task of their return by creating incentives and privileges for them, such as tax exemption for cars, issuing car numbers and procedures for providing official documents for these competencies. ”