No heating problems in schools in Yerevan

YEREVAN, January 10. /ARKA/. Schools of Yerevan do not have any heating
problems; all the schools opened in time, Deputy Head of Education
Department of Yerevan Municipality Armine Vardanyan reported.

Of 202 municipal educational institutions, 106 have individual boiler
houses, another 46 schools are equipped with extra heaters, she said.

She also said that electric cables, switch plugs and protection devices
were replaced during summer to ensure uninterrupted heating in
wintertime.

Continuous control is maintained over schools with additional heaters,
Vardanyan said. Starting from 6 o’clock in the morning the heating
status is checked and measures are taken so that it is warm in the
schools at 9 o’clock when the lessons start, she said.

Earlier the Mayor of Yerevan Yervand Zakharyan reported that measures
are to be taken to provide local heating system to the remaining
schools and all kindergartens in 2009 and 2010.

According to the country’s Ministry of Education and Science, 1,472
secondary schools function currently in Armenia, including 260 schools
in Yerevan. `0–