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Beautiful Bulgaria project to spend 71 million leva this year
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The Labour and Social Policy Ministry has started a thorough check into Beautiful Bulgaria – the government-funded initiative to revamp public buildings of architectural and historical value, widely proclaimed by former minister Emilia Maslarova as one of the best ways to secure jobs amid the economic crisis.
In his first days in office, new Social Minister Totyu Mladenov fired the head of the programme Stanimir Kolev without explanation.
This year the programme is supposed to spend 71 million leva on the construction and repair of 300 sites, mostly social and nursing homes, kindergartens and monuments of culture. Each scheme can tap up to 300 000 leva, where a bottom 50 per cent is covered by the contractor.
Beautiful Bulgaria programme started in 1997 with the purpose to give a facelift to old buildings and facades in Sofia.
The bulk of the programme's 2009 funding has flowed to the construction of nursing homes, with the costliest home to take care of people with physical or mental disabilities located in Dimovo in northwestern Bulgaria, showed a check by Dnevnik.
The repair of the building in Dimovo with a floor space of 240 sq m will cost about 560 euro a square metre, which is a price for building from scratch, according to experts.
The municipality of Elena in central Bulgaria has won the biggest slice of the funding where 199 000 leva will come from Beautiful Bulgaria. Most contracts went to Galant - 2 Ilieva, Marinova and Co, which is to lay grass on a sport field, replace a roof of a culture centre and repair a church on a 78 000 leva subsidy.
Another firm, Trapezitsa, was even luckier, landing a 100 000 leva deal to repair a kindergarten. Neither of the contractors could be reached for comment.
Beautiful Sevlievo tie-in won two contracts with a combined price tag of 197 000 leva under Beautiful Bulgaria. The consortium whose line of business has not been entered into the Trade Registry, should repair a social home for elderly and a sports hall.
More than 290 000 leva will go to three projects in Velingrad, in the Rhodopes, and further 200 000 leva will be spent on tourism and sports development through the overhaul of Yunak stadium in the southern municipality of Ardino.
Balkanstroy, which has built the first golf course near Razlog, will renovate the employment office in nearby Yakoruda in southwestern Bulgaria on 100 000 leva state aid.
In his first days in office, new Social Minister Totyu Mladenov fired the head of the programme Stanimir Kolev without explanation.
This year the programme is supposed to spend 71 million leva on the construction and repair of 300 sites, mostly social and nursing homes, kindergartens and monuments of culture. Each scheme can tap up to 300 000 leva, where a bottom 50 per cent is covered by the contractor.
Beautiful Bulgaria programme started in 1997 with the purpose to give a facelift to old buildings and facades in Sofia.
The bulk of the programme's 2009 funding has flowed to the construction of nursing homes, with the costliest home to take care of people with physical or mental disabilities located in Dimovo in northwestern Bulgaria, showed a check by Dnevnik.
The repair of the building in Dimovo with a floor space of 240 sq m will cost about 560 euro a square metre, which is a price for building from scratch, according to experts.
The municipality of Elena in central Bulgaria has won the biggest slice of the funding where 199 000 leva will come from Beautiful Bulgaria. Most contracts went to Galant - 2 Ilieva, Marinova and Co, which is to lay grass on a sport field, replace a roof of a culture centre and repair a church on a 78 000 leva subsidy.
Another firm, Trapezitsa, was even luckier, landing a 100 000 leva deal to repair a kindergarten. Neither of the contractors could be reached for comment.
Beautiful Sevlievo tie-in won two contracts with a combined price tag of 197 000 leva under Beautiful Bulgaria. The consortium whose line of business has not been entered into the Trade Registry, should repair a social home for elderly and a sports hall.
More than 290 000 leva will go to three projects in Velingrad, in the Rhodopes, and further 200 000 leva will be spent on tourism and sports development through the overhaul of Yunak stadium in the southern municipality of Ardino.
Balkanstroy, which has built the first golf course near Razlog, will renovate the employment office in nearby Yakoruda in southwestern Bulgaria on 100 000 leva state aid.
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While the construction and renovation of facilities for young children and the elderly is to be applauded, I cannot see how this comes under Beautiful Bulgaria.
70 million will be split between Mercedes, Porsche, Audi and BMW with the remaining 1 Million going to projects run by friends of Beautiful Bulgaria.
Watch this space. Give a monkey a bag of peanuts, and he'll eat them.
Hope they clean the streets as well