4 MILLION FOR FIREWORK IS ENOUGH AND 5 MILLION FOR SUSTAINING NURSERY SCHOOL IS TOO MUCH
Anahit Danielyan

23-06-2008 11:14:30
KarabakhOpen

On Friday the government withdrew from the agenda the issue of
opening a nursery school in the village of Arakel in Hadrut. The
minister of education and science Vladik Khachatryan said 5 million
387 thousand drams is needed to sustain the nursery school. However,
Prime Minister Ara Harutiunyan thought that it is too much for 30
children in 6 months. He said that may become a precedent and other
nursery schools may offer similar requirements, and the government
cannot afford to pay that much. The head of the government thinks it
is not normal that a nursery school with 30 children has 10 employees.

In a few minutes the government decided without any discussion to
assign 15 million 595 thousand drams for the celebration of the 17th
anniversary of the independence of NKR on September 2. According to the
program, 4.5 million drams will be allocated to the ministry of culture
for organizing concerts and inviting performers from Armenia. As
much as 4 million drams is foreseen to spend on a firework, another
million is foreseen for flowers, invitation cards and other expenses.

None of the ministers said four million on shooting in the air is
too much for a country which is not doing very well. They did not
remember about the nursery school which could be sustained on this
money for half a year.

Government fireworks happen at least three times a year – on New Year,
the Day of Victory and September 2. In other words, every year we
shoot in the air 12 million drams or about 40 thousand dollars.

Let alone other expenses, such as invitation of performers from
Armenia, which costs 4-5 million drams every time. Especially that
besides these expenses 500 thousand drams is provided to each region,
and 2.2 million is provided to Stepanakert for the celebrations.