PRIME MINISTER ASSESSES 2006 ACTIVITIES OF RA URBAN DEVELOPMENT
MINISTRY AS "SATISFACTORY"
YEREVAN, JANUARY 26, NOYAN TAPAN. In 2006, about 54 million 200
thousand drams (about 148 thousand USD) was transferred to the state
and community budgets as a result of bringing the activities of
urban development subjects to the legal field. By the annul report
submitted by the RA Ministry of Urban Development on January 25,
last year 761 persons received apartment puschase certificates at the
expense of state budgetary resources, 74 of whom got an apartment or
residential house.
According to the report, in 2006, the packages of master plans of
29 urban and rural communities were developed and then approved
by the Armenian government. The ministry continued the process of
creating a single system of normative and technical documents on urban
development, as well as inventory or construction of areas adjacent
to 4 major highways of the country was done.
The RA prime minister instructed the ministry to examine the
implementation of the 2005-2006 program of providing refugees with
apartments. He also instructed to increase control over the seismic
resistance of builings and constructions and the observation of urban
development norms.
The prime minister assessed the 2006 activities of the RA Ministry
of Urban Development as "satisfactory".