REPAIRS TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN 99 YEREVAN SCHOOLS THIS YEAR
Noyan Tapan
Ma y 20, 2008
YEREVAN, MAY 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Work of modernization, major repairs,
construction of heating systems in Yerevan comprehensive school
buildings is also envisaged by 2020, within the framework of the
Yerevan Major Plan. As Onik Vatian, the Head of the Education
Department of Yerevan Mayor’s Office, said at the May 19 press
conference, repairs will be implemented in 99 schools this
year. According to him, more than 4.1bn drams (nearly 13.3m USD)
has been allocated from the state budget this year for the purpose of
implementing school repair programs. 53 schools will be fundamentally
repaired and 6 individual heating boiler-houses will be built with
this sum.
It was mentioned that 2bn drams for repairs, as well as for building
of individual boiler-houses of 41 schools is envisaged by the Program
of Town Capital Expenditures of the Mayor’s Office.
O. Vatian said that major repairs of over 10m USD are implemented
in five Yerevan schools at present under the Lincy program. The
repaired schools will be put into operation at the beginning of the
new schoolyear.
According to the head of the department, the programs of teachers’
retraining will continue to be implemented. Retraining courses of
teachers of Physical Training, Civil Defence, Singing and Music,
Painting, and Informatics subjects will start from June 2. The program
of providing schools with laboratory equipment and computers continues.