PM holds Cabinet meeting
PM holds Cabinet meeting

Today’s Cabinet session, chaired by Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili discussed nine issues on its meeting agenda, the government’s press service reported.

The meeting approved amendments to the Decree on Allocating Finances to Some Municipalities for Financing Projects Selected under the 2020-2022 Pilot Program for the Integrated Development of the Regions, according to which targeted urban renovation, tourism, and business development projects will be implemented in 2021-2022 in Lagodekhi, Telavi, Kutaisi, Kharagauli, Lanchkhuti, Tskaltubo, and Chiatura Municipalities, for which these municipalities will receive 3,774,097 GEL under said program, while themselves providing over 42,000 GEL in co-financing. Financed projects were selected on the initiative of the municipalities and based on competitions announced within the framework of the program.

Projects to be implemented in seven municipalities under the European Union’s program will enjoy financing amounting to a total of 4 million GEL. The 2020-2022 Pilot Program for the Integrated Development of the Regions involves financing targeted measures in Georgia’s 4 pilot regions: Kakheti, Imereti, Guria, and Racha-Lechkhumi-Kvemo Svaneti. Under the Pilot Program for the Integrated Development of the Regions, up to 48 million GEL has already been allocated to the municipalities of the four pilot regions, the press statement read.