Nikol Pashinyan hopes that by end of 2019 government will be able to  publish "100 new facts about the new Armenia"

ArmInfo.On the May 8 press conference of RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, following the results of the annual activities of the head of the government, set a  new level of accountability of the Cabinet, which should become a  guide for all its members.

Nikol Pashinyan announced this on May 10 before the start of the next  government meeting. According to the premier, the government should  provide the public with 100 additional facts about the new Armenia.   All booth members will be guided by the accountability criteria  established at the press conference. That is, according to the  results of the year, facts testifying to specific changes in the life  of citizens will be made public, "Pashinyan said.

As the head of the government pointed out, at this stage, the number  one task is to find effective ways to spend the generated funds of  -62 billion drams of additional tax revenues of the state treasury,  which, as expected, should come to the budget for the year. The prime  minister recalled that a decision has already been made to spend  about 30 billion AMD from them, and today we need to decide on the  rest of the amount. Nikol Pashinyan also reminded that during the  year construction work is planned to be unprecedented in recent  years. The active stage, as he pointed out, starts in May. As the  prime minister stressed, it is necessary to do everything possible to  avoid a situation where at the end of the construction marriages will  be revealed and the authorities will be forced to refuse to accept  the work done. According to the head of government, for this,  perhaps, we should think about more effective control mechanisms and  measures of legal influence, up to the establishment of criminal  liability. 

To recall, on May 8, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the next - 5th  meeting with journalists in a similar format, summing up his annual  activity as head of government, announced the "100 facts about new  Armenia."

In particular, Pashinyan said that during the year of activity of the  new Cabinet a lot was done. So, taking into account tax revenues to  the budget in the first quarter of this year, the government revised  its expectations for tax revenues by the end of the year to 62  billion drams or $ 129 million. In addition, according to him, after  the velvet revolution, the tax paid off over-pay obligations in the  amount of 120 billion drams. That is, as the prime minister pointed  out, the government returned more than $ 300 million to business. The  VAT refund for the reporting period compared to the same period last  year (May to May) turned out to be 19 billion drams more. Over the  same period, cash checks were printed 82 million more, which is  35-40% higher than last year. According to the Prime Minister, during  the reporting period, about 51,000 new jobs were registered. These  are not only those that have emerged from the "shadow", but also new  jobs. Due to the excess of tax revenues, it was possible to increase  the expenditure items of the budget.  In particular, from July 1, the  salary for servicemen will be increased by 20-30%, and from September  1, teachers' salaries will be increased. Another 5.7 billion drams  will be allocated to the provision of housing for servicemen.

As part of the reforms of the mandatory funded pension system, the  salary of about 209 thousand citizens was raised, another 200  thousand will receive more after the entry into force of new  regulations on income tax. At the end of 2018, as a result of the  policy for the consolidation of public debt, the level of government  debt decreased by 2.3 percentage points. In particular, according to  the prime minister, the ratio of government debt to GDP by the end of  2018 was about 51%. In addition, in 2018, the road construction  programs were exceeded by 60%, this year the volume of work will  exceed the figures for the previous 9-10 years. In 2019, it is  planned to repair interstate and republican roads with a length of  312 km.  As part of the World Bank's loan program, the Lifeline Road  Network Improvement Project, significant funds will be spent on the  average repair of roads about 60 km long.