Monday, December 11 2017 16:17

ArmInfo."We need to make sure that the incomes in Armenia are distributed as evenly as possible, and people in conditions of already small GDP were not one close to  the bottom, the other on top," said President Serzh Sargsyan at the final session of the conference on local self- government bodies and territorial administration in the Armenian Dilijan.

As the president noted, the process of preparation for uniform  territorial development has been completed by the adoption of the  Territorial Development Strategy for 2016-2025, the strategy for the  development of disctricts  for 2017-2025 and the Operational Plans  for Territorial Development for 2018-2020. In the document, as Serzh  Sargsyan pointed out, the following specific indicators are fixed.  First, according to the situation in 2025, in every single marz, GDP  per capita will exceed 60% of the average republican GDP per capita  and below 70% of GDP per capita will be no more than 30% of the  population of the districts.  Secondly, according to the situation in  2025, in all districts the number of people with secondary  specialized and higher education who are not formally employed in  agriculture and active enterprises will grow by at least 10 percent  compared to 2014.

"I understand that there will be skeptics, many will say: from our  villages they leave, especially those who have higher education, but  there are mechanisms, there are tools that can bring the situation to  the desired state for us," he said. According to the experts of the  European Union, as the President indicated, qualitative documents  have been prepared. However, in order to implement the strategy, it  is important that at least two registers are clearly kept in the  communities: agriculture and construction. These registers will show  the pace of economic growth, primarily of the community, then - the  marz.

 "Why do our farms always try to show their incomes less than they do  in reality?" Why do villagers try to show fewer yields? What is the  reason? No matter what, the tax is not taxed. Nobody comes to these  people and if you got a bigger crop, I do not know ... something must  be done about it. This is a bad phenomenon, because it interferes  with planning, because also other links cannot properly organize  their work, "he said.  At the same time, as the president asked, what  hinders if a person has five heads of livestock, why does he say that  he has three? "What is the reason? Who will come to take them from  him?", Sargsyan stated. It happens also when the head of a community  takes and writes a figure without any calculation and sends it to the  regional administration.

"In both cases, these are very bad things, but let's look at the  construction figures, but we regularly, and I, and the ministers, and  the prime minister travel around the Republic, we visit various  settlements, we are glad that construction is going on in different  villages. And suddenly we see that it's zero, no construction, I  think one of the reasons is that in many cases the documentation is  not maintained, but still, sooner or later someone will come and say:  "Well, where is your building permit? "Is it not better that we  initially did the right thing, and this report was given than in  three years, five years will come to see, for example, that in the  village there is some kind of industrial enterprise, but nowhere is  it registered, "he said. Today, according to Serzh Sargsyan,  unfortunately, there are a lot of cases when the community receives  mostly inadequate information, which makes it difficult to develop  effective targeted development programs in state bodies. "We need to  take full account of new gardens, greenhouses, construction sites,  etc.," the president said, stressing that this is important from the  point of view of planning.

Preliminary research data, as Serzh Sargsyan pointed out, show that  20214 hectares of orchards are registered in the State Cadastre  Committee.