Moldovan premier says investments in infrastructure priority for cabinet, way to back economy

Chisinau, 23 September /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today chaired a meeting of the Road Fund Council. The participants in the event unveiled a report on the march of the works of national roads’ repair and maintenance during the first eight months of 2020. At the same time, they considered and approved a draft government decision on the amendment of the programme on the distribution of the Road Fund’s means for this year, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.  

The Economics and Infrastructure Ministry (MEI) presented to the Council information on the carrying out of the works of maintenance and reestablishment/construction of the road infrastructure, financed from the Road Fund, as well as about the implementation of the Good Roads project and those financed from financial sources attracted from abroad. The state will spend about six billion lei for the roads’ infrastructure this year, of which 1.6 billion lei from the Road Fund and 1.375 billion lei – from the state budget for the Good Roads programme.  

According to information unveiled by MEI, more than a half of the volume of work planned for 2020 have been already carried out and the rest of the works scheduled in the programme will be carried out till the end of this year. At the same time, as a result of the efficient turning to account of the means planned, savings were also made (about 40 million lei), which will be re-directed to repair additional road segments, which were initially not included in the plan for 2020.  

PM Ion Chicu drew attention of the officials of MEI and State Administration of Roads about the quality of the works carried out. He reiterated the government’s position not to pay financial means to the companies due to allow deviations from the quality standards.  

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