ArmInfo.From year to year, the budget of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures is growing, and the lion's share of the funds goes to capital expenditures. Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Gnel Sanosyan stated in an interview.
In particular, he said that in 2021 the department's capital expenditures amounted to 77 billion drams, in 2022 - 95 billion drams, in 2023 - 141 billion drams. Speaking about 2024, the minister said that large programs are planned, and the budget for the current year amounted to 307 billion drams. Of this amount, 150 billion drams will be spent on capital expenditures. At the same time, he noted that with a large volume of programs, the work of the Ministry, inspection bodies, and regional administrations becomes more complicated. In view of the mentioned, the possibilities of introducing additional supervisory functions and involving other departments in the context of implementing control are being discussed.
"We often undertake obligations for technical control of the work performed, although there are companies for this purpose that have won as a result of tender processes. There are cases when specialists do their work poorly," he said. According to Sanosyan, from 10% to 20% of the total number of companies perform their work poorly, which creates additional difficulties.
The Minister expressed satisfaction that the potential of Armenian industrial companies and specialists involved in the department's capital programs is growing year after year. "This cannot but please me. Years earlier, we did not even know that we had such opportunities," Sanosyan emphasized. In particular, he noted that today local companies are involved as subcontractors in the program for the construction of the North-South transport corridor.
The government plans to increase the share of the capital construction budget to 6.6% in the GDP by 2026.
