STATE SIGNIFICANE ROADS CONSTRUCTION COST 11 BILLION 698 MILLION DRAMS
The Ministry of Transport and Communication scheduled to hold three projects this year: construction of state significance roads, construction of transport objects, and exploitation and protection of roads. According to the ministry, it is planned to carry out 11billion 698 million drams work. More than 50 regional, interstate and country roads would be profoundly reconstructed.
According to the same source, 1 billion 100 million drams will be transferred from the state budget to repair transport means, and regional, inter-state several roads and bridges will be reconstructed. Within “Millennium Challenges” project it is planned to start reconstruction of 273km long roads in 2008. The project cost 14.8 billion drams. In 2009 it is planned to finish the works.
Besides, the source informed that within Asian Development Bank project 107km long roads will be reconstructed also. And the total cost of the project is 4.9billion drams.