Massive school building project begins across Georgia
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The Georgian government will spend 68 million GEL to build 27 schools in 22 regions.
The funds will be allocated to and administered by the Municipal Development Fund which supports strengthening the institutional and financial capacity of local government in Georgia
This is just a small part of the infrastructural projects which we have to implement in the educational field starting this year. This year, education projects have doubled”, Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia Maia Tskitishvili said.
In addition to these 27 schools, the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia plans to renovate 31 schools with the financial support of the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) and Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) in 2019-2020.
Additionally, with the financial support of the Georgian government, dozens of schools will be renovated, including public schools in south Georgia.
Vice-Prime Minister Maya Tskitishvili added that they had studied infrastructural necessities in schools throughout Georgia.
Through the close collaboration with the Ministry of Education, we have selected regions where the construction of new schools is necessary. Unfortunately, children from different villages go to one school. We try to have a maximally vast geographical cover in order to provide a school in every region,” Maya Tskitishvili noted.
In some regions, several villages share only one school, thus the government plans to cover as many regions as possible.
About 15 public schools in Georgia will be turned into more energy-efficient buildings through a pilot project that introduces energy-saving solutions for schools.
Lanchkhuti, a western Georgian town in Guria region, will welcome 36 infrastructural projects, worth 51 million GEL in 2019, announces the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development.
The rehabilitation of these 30 schools will ensure that 15,200 students have a better environment for studying. 15 million USD will be allocated for renovation works.
Thirty Georgian schools have been fully rehabilitated thanks to funding allocated by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), improving education environment for more than 10,000 pupils.
The Municipal Development Fund has started carrying out 250 projects in 2019 out of which 70 are already finished, said Minister of Regional Infrastructure Maia Tskitishvili earlier today adding that 15,000 people have been employed last year at construction worksites.
Various projects will be financed in Georgian municipalities by funds not used in 2019, says the Ministry of Infrastructure.
Georgia has allocated 40 mln GEL ($14.3 mln/€13 mln) for 2020 for the reconstruction of schools in the whole country, says the Ministry of Infrastructure.
A total of 220 million GEL (about $72,358,900) will be spent on the construction and renovation of schools throughout Georgia by fall 2021, said Georgian Infrastructure Minister Maia Tskitishvili.
Construction of a new school has ended in the village of Laila, Tsageri municipality, says the Municipal Development Fund.