90% of Georgian population to have access to natural gas in 3 years

The government of Georgia will continue to provide natural gas supply to areas of the country where it is still not available and in three years 211 villages or 33,000 families will have access to natural gas, announced Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia today.

The government of Georgia started a three-year gasification plan in 2019, within which 384 villages will [receive access to natural gas]. Of course this is not enough and the government has made the decision to continue the gasification plan with a new governmental programme as a result of which another 211 families will receive natural gas in 2021-2024. This means that 90 per cent of the Georgian population will have access to natural gas", Gakharia said. 

A total of 659 million GEL will be spent on gasification in Georgia in 2013-2021, said Gakharia who added that in 2012-2020 the government of Georgia spent 23 billion GEL on system infrastructure projects. 

PM Gakharia presented the gasification programme in Tsalenjikha. Photo: Gov't of Georgia.

The Georgian government will spend twice as much in 2021-2024. This is the money that will be spent on roads, gas, water, schools, kindergartens - all of which should bring our daily lives closer and closer to European standards", said Gakharia.

Gakharia stated that the biggest problem today after roads and gasification is the provision of drinking water and irrigation systems, which he promised would be solved in the next four years.

"By 2024, 2,800,000 citizens of Georgia will have 24-hour water supply", Gakharia said.