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Yerevan Municipality Taking Back Previously Allocated Public Kindergarten Property

The Yerevan Municipality has recently taken steps to take back public kindergarten property, some 13,000 square meters worth, that previous local governments had allocated for free to a variety of organizations.

To date, some 6,000 square meters have already been returned to their original kindergartens.   

Last year, Hetq published a series of articles looking into the scores of public kindergartens that have closed throughout Yerevan, many of them purchased by former officials and their cronies.

A Yerevan Municipality press release boasts that children are now attending classes at the city’s N. 119 Kindergarten in a part of the building that had been allocated for free for the past ten years.

 “For many years the site was given to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) as an office. After the expiration of the contract, the Yerevan Municipality no longer extended it, allowing dozens of children to attend kindergarten. The office, which is about 140 square meters, was renovated by the municipality. It is designed for younger children,” says Kindergarten Director Nelly Aghumyan.

“All areas that were taken from the community and used should be returned and used according to their original purpose. That is, we need to open new classrooms in kindergartens. According to our calculations, there is a need to open about 250 new classrooms today so that we can bring the waiting list to zero,” says Deputy Yerevan Mayor Tigran Virabyan.

Virabyan says that many contracts are coming do and the municipality will review the all to see if an extension is appropriate or not.

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