RUBBISH DISPOSAL MANAGEMENT PROJECT TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN IJEVAN

Noyan Tapan
Jul 09 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Great Britain’s Department of
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) starts implementation of
the Ijevan Rubbish Disposal Management Project within the framework
of the assistance program aimed at Armenia’s development implemented
by that country’s government. The project’s goal is to encourage
investment of resources into the organic rubbish disposal system
in the town. Anthony Cantor, the Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of Great Britain to Armenia, said this on July 6,
when presenting the above mentioned project at Ijevan’s Business and
Tourism Information Center.

In his words, the project, costing 84 thousand pounds sterling,
relates to the development program implemented in the Tavush region
since 2005. It is implemented with the assistance of Great Britain’s
International Development Department. The last program also includes
an environment protection component. The Ambassador expressed the
hope that the Ijevan Rubbish Disposal Management Project will be
successfully finished in nine months and will contribute to the
improval of the environment in the region and in the town.

Armen Ghularian, the Tavush Governor, attached importance to
the circumstance that the international structures respond to the
proposals to support the region’s development programs. In his words,
the community of Ijevan, on its own, could hardly solve the problem
of rubbish system modernization, including the modernization of
dump operations.

Gagik Minasian, the Head of the Business Consulting Department of
the Ameria Armenian consulting company, the advisor of the program’s
implementation, said that the above mentioned components are involved
in Ameria’s technical assistance stage to the program. Within the
framework of that assistance the company will work out the Ijevan
Rubbish Disposal Management Project.

Ijevan Mayor’s Office has registered success within the framework
of the 2003-12 rubbish disposal system improvement program. Varuzhan
Nersisian, the Mayor of Ijevan, said that the total amount of payments
for rubbish disposal program in the first six months of 2006 made 2m
drams (nearly 4.5 thousand USD), while the same index made 3m drams
in the same period of 2007, and it is envisaged to bring it to 8m
USD by the end of the year.

Small and accumulation dustbins have been placed in Ijevan, the town’s
dump has been fenced, the salary of 22 cleaners has been raised from
10 thousand drams to 30 thousand drams, and a rubbish removing machine
has been purchased with 14m drams allocated by the 2006 town budget,
within the framework of the program implemented by the Mayor’s Office.