MORE THAN 3 MLN USD ALLOCATED FROM STATE BUDGET FOR MAJOR REPAIRS OF YEREVAN SCHOOLS
Noyan Tapan
June 05 2006
YEREVAN, JUNE 5, NOYAN TAPAN. 10 bln drams (23 mln 256 thousand USD)
has been allocated to the sphere of education by 2006 RA state budget,
1 bln 350 mln drams out of which is envisaged for major repairs of 15
schools within the jurisdiction of Yerevan Mayor’s Office. As Onik
Vatian, Head of the Education Department of Yerevan Mayor’s Office,
informed at the June 5 press conference, this year repairs will be
implemented at Yerevan schools with the resources of the Foundation
of Social Investments, as well as the Lincy Foundation. The latter has
planned to fundamentally repair 6 comprehensive schools. O.Vatian said
that the repairs of some schools will finish not at the beginning but
at the end of the schoolyear. According to the head of the Education
Department, 132 thousand pupils attended Yerevan schools last year,
while their number was 130707 in 2005-2006 schoolyear. According to
O.Vatian, the number of 10-form pupils is more by 154 as compared
with the previous year.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress