Government to provide 211 IDP families with accommodations
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“The Government of Georgia will provide 211 IDP families with accommodations for free,” Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has declared at a briefing today.
The IDPs will receive accommodations in Tbilisi, Poti, Gori, Batumi, Zugdidi, as well as Kakheti and Kvemo Kartli regions.
Bakhtadze said more than 17,000 IDP families have received apartments since October 2012.
Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze said that the process will continue.
Statistical data provided by the Ministry of Health, Social Care and Internally Displaced People shows there are 86,283 IDP families in Georgia as a result of local separatist conflicts in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions.
52 internally displaced families from Georgia’s Russian occupied territories have received new flats in the country’s western city of Kutaisi, announces Georgia’s Ministry of Health and Labour.
“Installation of artificial barriers and barbed wire fences further aggravated the humanitarian conditions of conflict affected population. We are deeply concerned over the systematic violation of the fundamental human rights including the ethnic discrimination against the Georgians in both occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions, "Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said.
In order to improve the living conditions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in the eastern Georgian village of Prezeti, the government of Lithuania has financed a renewable energy project and introduced energy-saving solutions in Prezeti.
The Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia has announced a tender to purchase 400 apartments for internally displaced persons.
Georgian refugees from Abkhazia are holding a rally in front of the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health, and Social Affairs of Georgia demanding they be given apartments.
The Agency for IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons), eco-migrants and livelihood provision will provide 401 IDP families with accommodations in rural areas, reports the Ministry of Health, Social Care and Internally Displaced Persons.
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) who own no more than five hectares of agricultural land may be exempt from paying property tax, announced Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia at a government meeting earlier today.
The Georgian Government has provided 34 internally displaced families (IDPs) with accommodations in Georgia’s eastern region of Shida Kartli.
The Agency for IDPs and Eco-migrants of Georgia has purchased 734 rural houses for IDP families in the Samegrelo region of Georgia 'over the past year', announces the agency.