WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MONEY FOR STREETS CLEANING

LRAGIR.AM
15:26:13 – 13/04/2009

The Armenian government at its April 9, 2009, session decided to direct
the 936 million 500 thousands drams of Yerevan City significance to the
implementation of other projects. This sum is directed to the district
communes of Yerevan for contributing the wide scale street cleaning,
is said in the governmental official message. In connection with the
decision, the Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan particularly noted: "I
think that this is a right distribution, because the number one problem
which bothers the Yerevan residents is that of the street cleaning".

Though, a number of questions occur in connection with this
decision. Particularly, what happened to Tigran Sargsyan as he
gave up his almost cosmic projects aimed at the future and focused
his attention at the street cleaning. Especially in case, 963, 5
million drams, were scheduled for the construction of a road bridge
on the Hrazdan River, which would surely be a useful structure for
the capital. In addition, the heads of Yerevan district communes,
which are mostly Republicans, get rather big money right for street
cleaning and sanitary works. Where are these sums that another almost
3 million drams is allocated from the budget for the same purpose,
what the district heads have been engaged in so far, has the government
ever wondered?

Perhaps, Tigran Sargsyan wanted the street cleaning to become an
all-Armenian topic of almost cosmic strength. In addition, that the
Yerevan Mayor election is scheduled for May 31, and the candidate of
the Republicans, Serge and Tigran Sargsyans is Gagik Beglaryan who has
to carry out large scale sanitary works. According to the governmental
logic, the residents of Yerevan are interested only in street cleaning
and the capital needs a good manager for street cleaning and that is
all. And now another 936, 5 million drams are taken from the budget
and thrown into the cask of Danaides of the electoral campaign.