Infrastructure Minister presents annual report for 2020, discusses future plans
Tskitishvili noted that this year over 1,300 companies and 31,000 people have been working for 6,000 projects in total. Photo: Ministry of Infrastructure.
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Infrastructure Minister Maia Tskitishvili has presented the annual 2020 for 2020 and discussed the activities the Georgian Ministry of Infrastructure carried out this year.
She said that in total 332,000 people now have better water supply.
In 2020, 20 new schools have been built for 1,530 students in total, while 17 kindergartens have been built for a total of 1000 children,” said Tskitishvili.
As for internally displaced people, 500 IDP families have been given flats in newly built residential buildings in Zugdidi and Tskaltubo.
Tskitishvili noted that this year over 1,300 companies and 31,000 people have been working for 6,000 projects in total.
The minister said that 70 km of expressway has already been completed, while 39 tunnel and 53 bridges reconstruction works are underway on Rikoti highway. Five new tunnels have already been cut there. Rikoti employs 3,311 people out of which 1,988 are Georgian citizens.
As for regional development, by the support of the European Union and the government of Georgia, the Pilot Regions Integrated Development Program started with a total investment of €63 million. The programme includes the Kakheti, Imereti, Guria, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti regions.
The minister also spoke about transport and noted that with the support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) out of 175 bought buses for the cities of Gori, Zugdidi, Rustavi, Kutaisi, Telavi and Poti, 88 buses have already been brought to cities.
360 million GEL has been allocated by the Regional Development Fund to improve roads, water supply and for other purposes in the regions. The amount of projects carried out in the regions under support of the Regional Development Fund amounted to 1,065 projects where more than 16,000 citizens have been employed.
The Rural Support Programme financed 4,250 projects chosen by residents of 3,140 villages which cost 40 million GEL in total.
Despite the pandemic, no projects of important strategic importance have been suspended,” Tskitishvili noted.
The minister also spoke about next year’s plans of the ministry.
Next year, the reconstruction of Tbilisi-Sagarejo expressway will start, she noted.
Additionally, Tskitishvili said that water supply projects will be carried out in dozens of settlements.
The completion of reconstruction works of 41 schools and 15 kindergartens are also planned for next year.
Also, 1,020 IDP families will receive flats in newly built residential buildings in Zugdidi, Samegrelo region and Tskaltubo, Imereti region.
Georgia is currently building 140 kilometers of new large highways, of which a total of 70 km roads will be opened by the end of 2020, says Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia.
The modernisation of Rikoti Pass continues to more efficiently connect East and West Georgia. As part of the project two new tunnels have been carved on the Khevi-Ubisa section, near the villages of Ubisa and Gantiadi.
The Roads Department of Georgia has signed an agreement for the reconstruction of the fourth section of the Rikoti Pass – a mountain pass which divides Georgia into its eastern and western parts – with Guizhou Highway Engineering Group and China National Technical Import and Export Corporation, announced the department earlier today.
Georgia’s Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure has announced its priority projects for 2019.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has appointed Infrastructure Minister Maia Tskitishvili as his first deputy prime minister and Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani as deputy prime minister earlier today.
Georgian Infrastructure Minister Maia Tskitishvili has presented new projects today that will be implemented in Georgia this year. The new projects are mainly related to the renovation of schools and roads in Georgia.
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