YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. 100 schools functioning within the jurisdiction of Yerevan Mayor's Office will be heated with private boiler houses in winter. As Kamo Areyan, the Deputy Mayor of Yerevan, said at the November 5 press conference, private boiler houses worked only in 52 schools last winter. According to K. Areyan, the Mayor's Office has submitted a draft program of 2008 local heating system of schools and pre-school institutions to the RA government. According to it, next year it is planned to provide 34 schools and 36 kindergartens with private heating system within the limits of allocations of nearly 1b drams (nearly 303 thousand USD) of Yerevan's town expenditures. The Deputy Mayor also said that by the decision of the RA Ministry of Education and Science, autumn and spring holidays will be given only to 1-3-form pupils in Yerevan schools. And spring holidays of 4-11-form pupils will be joined with their winter holidays. And winter holidays will be established for all in the period from December 24 to January 20.

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