YEREVAN, JANUARY 26, NOYAN TAPAN. In 2006, about 54 million 200 thousand drams (about 148 thousand USD) was transferred to the state and community budgets as a result of bringing the activities of urban development subjects to the legal field. By the annul report submitted by the RA Ministry of Urban Development on January 25, last year 761 persons received apartment puschase certificates at the expense of state budgetary resources, 74 of whom got an apartment or residential house. According to the report, in 2006, the packages of master plans of 29 urban and rural communities were developed and then approved by the Armenian government. The ministry continued the process of creating a single system of normative and technical documents on urban development, as well as inventory or construction of areas adjacent to 4 major highways of the country was done. The RA prime minister instructed the ministry to examine the implementation of the 2005-2006 program of providing refugees with apartments. He also instructed to increase control over the seismic resistance of builings and constructions and the observation of urban development norms. The prime minister assessed the 2006 activities of the RA Ministry of Urban Development as "satisfactory".

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