ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT PROVIDES ABOUT 23 MLN DRAMS TO SOLVE PROBLEM OF
SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN FOUR BORDER VILLAGES OF SYUNIK MARZ

YEREVAN, MARCH 9, NOYAN TAPAN. At the March 9 sitting, the Armenian
government took a decision to provide 22 mln 900 thousand drams (about
51 thousand USD) from its 2006 reserve fund to the Syunik regional
administration for the purpose of purchasing residential buildings in
a number of border villages and their reconstruction as schools in the
future. The indicated sum of money was distributed among the following
villages of the marz: Shishkert (3 mln drams), Shamb (3 mln 900
thousand drams), Ltsen (13 mln drams) and Srashen (3 mln drams).

According to the RA Government Information and PR Department, the
government also approved the amounts of funds to be allocated for
providing free textbooks to pupils of primary classes, for
reconstruction of military science classrooms and purchase of
textbooks for pupils of the inner Diaspora schools within the
comprehensive programs’ implementation assistance framework of the
2006 RA state budget.