BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec.9
By Tamilla Mammadova – Trend:
The 2021 Tbilisi budget will be over 1.1 billion lari ($335.2 million), said Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze, Trend reports via Georgian media.
He announced, noting that 33 percent of the budget will be spent on social and healthcare projects.
"In 2021 it is fundamentally important to implement various types of projects in the city," said Kaladze.
The city’s 2020 budget was 1.23 billion lari ($374.8 million), an increase of 217 million lari ($66.1 million) over 2019; much of the Tbilisi budget for 2020 was used to replace old yellow buses and renew the city’s public transport fleet.
As for the state budget of Georgia, 18 billion lari ($5.4 billion) has been allocated for state ministries, agencies, projects, and also to alleviate sectors of the economy affected COVID-19 in 2021.
The budget will be distributed among ministries as follows:
Ministry of IDPs from the Labor, Health and Social Affairs – 5.56 billion lari ($1.6 billion),
Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure – 2.42 billion lari ($729.9 million),
Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports – 1.8 billion lari ($524.9 million),
Ministry of Defense – 900 million lari ($271.4 million),
Ministry of Internal Affairs – 790 million lari ($238.2 million),
Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development - 469.8 million lari ($141.7 million),
Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture - 463.6 million lari ($139.8 million),
Ministry of Justice – 246.5 million lari ($74.3 million),
Ministry of Foreign Affairs – 174.2 million lari ($52.5 million),
Ministry of Finance – 88.9 million lari ($26.8 million).
Meanwhile, the budget of the State Ministry for Reconciliation and Civic Equality of Georgia amounted to 2.55 million lari ($769.1 million).
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