The State to partially cover utility fees for families living near occupied territories
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Families living near Georgia’s Russian-occupied territories will receive 200-lari vouchers to cover natural gas expenses, Ketevan Tsikhelashvili, Georgia’s State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality said after today’s Government Meeting.
Tsikhelashvili said 2,378,800 lari would be equally distributed to all the 11,894 families living along the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) with Georgia’s breakaway region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
Ketevan Tsikhelashvili, Georgia’s State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality said families living near Georgia’s Russian-occupied territories will receive vouchers to cover natural gas expenses. Photo by State Ministry's press office
The State Minister said that although most villages in the region have received access to gas, there are some 728 families who have not.
However, she said, they will also receive 200-GEL voucher to cover the expenses of the alternative heating they are currently using, which in most cases is firewood.
Tsikhelashvili said the Government of Georgia has been assisting families living along the ABL during the winter period in previous years as well.
Natural gas is now available to one million people in Georgia thanks to the Government’s efforts to ensure everyone in the country has reliable access to gas.
Almost 8,000 families living in rural Georgia will soon be supplied with natural gas for the first time.
Georgia is taking measures for the sake of safeguarding the country’s natural gas supply.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has held a fruitful meeting with a high official from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) today in Tbilisi.
13,859 families living near Georgia’s Russian-occupied territories will receive 200 GEL vouchers to cover heating expenses, Georgia’s State Ministry for Reconciliation and Civic Equality stated today.