ARMENIAN PREMIER PARTICIPATES IN QUAKE-HIT FAMILIES COUNT SYSTEM PRESENTATION
/ARKA/
April 21, 2009
YEREVAN
Armenia’s Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan participated today at a
presentation of a uniform system of counting quake-hit families
in Armenia.
"Last year, we announced about our decision to launch a uniform
information system to settle once and for all the issue of calculating
the families left homeless after the 1988 earthquake. Today we are
here to see how the system works," the premier said.
In his turn, RA Minister of Urban Development Vardan Vardanyan said
on June 12, 2008, the RA Government approved a concept of settling
the housing issue of the quake-hit families in Armenia.
According to the concept, the government is to grant houses to 6,900
families.
"Taking into account how urgent the issue is, the Central Bank of
Armenia and the RA Ministry of Urban Development combined their efforts
to cerate a uniform information system calculating the families left
roofless," Vardanyan added.
According to the minister, a single center will control the system
and the housing department of the RA Ministry of Urban Planning is
to deal with system management issues.
Vardandyan stressed the role of the system in ensuring transparency
of the housing program and management of housing facilities.
The system consists of four databases – individuals’ database,
addresses, the waiting list data and the current situation.
To launch the system, the RA Government allocated 15mln drams from
the budget to buy necessary equipment.