Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Ministry of Urban Development Submits Performance Report
Chaired by Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, the Cabinet discussed today the 2015 performance report delivered by Minister of Urban Development Narek Sargsyan, which covered the Ministry’s key activities, the fulfillment of the Government’s action plan, priority tasks and estimated performance.
The Minister said that on December 1, 2014 an arrangement was signed with Multicontinental Distribution LLC on implementation of the Old Yerevan project, and construction activities started in September, 2015.
Last year, the urban investment program referred to as Firdusi or 33th district was introduced last year, followed by a negotiation process with a number of foreign investors. The Minister stressed the importance of continuity in the construction of educational, sports, cultural and health facilities construction, reconstruction and rehabilitation operations, which contributed to the upgrading of these sectors and the need to raise the level of provision of essential services.
Narek Sargsyan reminded that financial means had been allocated from the Government’s reserve fund to 14 beneficiaries in Vanadzor for the purchase of apartments (houses). 15 beneficiary households in rural areas of Lori and Shirak Marzes were provided direct financial assistance to improve their housing conditions.
The 2016 State budget law has envisaged financial resources necessary for the provision of financial support in order to address the housing problems of 104 families of Akhuryan through the resumption of construction of 3 apartment buildings in Akhuryan community, as well as for the provision of certificates to purchase housing for 33 families.
The Prime Minister was informed that the urban development ministry last year to collect and summarize the available information on the unfinished objects in the provinces. Accordingly, there are 230 unfinished facilities in the regions in which the half-built technical work necessary to implement hetaznnutyan able to solve the problems of renewal of construction, use and demolition.
At the prescribed procedures have been done through the acceptance hetaznnutyan conclusions incomplete technical condition. The Ministry has developed and submitted to the Government of the non-residential apartment buildings (roof, basement) package of proposals on the introduction of systematic mechanisms for the reconstruction, repair.
Prime Minister Abrahamyan stressed that there are serious challenges for the sector in 2016, therefore consistency is needed to implement all the proposed investment projects. Noting that last year’s slight growth in construction is still far from being satisfactory, the Premier stressed the need to make non-standard, but well-grounded decisions.
