16 more internally displaced families receive access to natural gas
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Sixteen internally displaced families from Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia will have access to natural gas starting today.
3717 internally displaced families have been provided with access to natural gas since 2012.
Many of these families have been given living quarters in a formerly privately-owned building in the capital of Tbilisi since 1991.
Thousands were forced to leave the regions of Abkhazia in the late 1980s and early 1990s due to armed conflict. The Georgian Parliament passed a resolution in 2008 declaring Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia) Russian-occupied territories of Georgia.
Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees Sozar Subari and Minister of Energy Kakha Kaladze visit internally displaced families in Tbilisi. Photo by MRA Georgia
The Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees Sozar Subari said the ministry had taken ownership of the building and is in the process of transferring it into the possession of IDPs for free.
Subari said the number of families that have been given accommodations without charge exceeds 1,000.
The process of gasification that is underway all around the country is being implemented with great success”, Minister of Energy Kakha Kaladze said.
The most recent measures cost around 7,000 GEL based on ministry information.
Kaladze also said that the gasification of the country will continue until each and every citizen of Georgia has access to natural gas.
The Government of Georgia continues work to ensure natural gas supplies to villages throughout the country.
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.
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29 internally displaced families from Georgia’s breakaway Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia) have received new apartments today in the central Georgian town of Gori.
Internally displaced persons from the Russian occupied regions of Georgia – Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) can receive up to 5,000 GEL small grants to lead their own business this year.
28 internally displaced families from Georgia’s breakaway regions of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) and Abkhazia have received new apartments today in one of the central streets in the city of Marneuli, Kvemo Kartli.
86 internally displaced families from the Russian occupied regions of Georgia – Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) have received village houses with plots of land to produce their own agricultural products in Shida Kartli.
Four villages in Georgia’s eastern Shida Kartli region – Idleti, Tsinarekhi, Lavriskhevi and Gomijvari will have natural gas provision from now on.
Villages in Georgia’s high mountainous region of Adjara will soon be supplied with natural gas thanks to a new gasification project launching today.
A total of 420 internally displaced families from Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia will have access to natural gas starting from next month.
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