The Ministry of Culture of Georgia will again become a separate body and it will be detached from the current Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Georgia, Deputy Head of Parliament’s Education Committee Nukri Kantaria says.
Kantaria told IPN earlier today the decision to merge the ministries of education and culture back in 2018 under Mamuka Bakhtadze’s premiership was “a mistake.”
An agreement has been reached in the Georgian government that the Ministry of Culture act separately. The government is likely to launch the separation process in February which will be finalised by parliament,” Kantaria said.
The MP stated that this will not be an issue for the budget as there is a separate article which regulates funding issues for culture.
14 ministries were reduced to 10 ministries and 1 state minister office in 2018 to decrease administrative costs in the state bureaucracy.