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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with its decision has redistributed the budget of the State Agency of Automobile Roads (Ukravtodor) for 2016, reducing the debt payment of the agency by UAH 1.5 billion, and sent the money to the program of the general purpose roads repair and maintenance, according to the decree of the Cabinet of Ministers (No.435), published on the web portal of the Government.
According to the government decision, the total amount of funds allocated for road maintenance increased to UAH 8 billion from UAH 6.5 billion.
Read alsoInfrastructure Minister: The better the managers we think we have, the longer the trail of corruption behind them"In connection with the restructuring charges for the three loans obtained by Ukravtodor under the state guarantees, a part of the funds, which were planned to be sent on the debt service on loans, have been redistributed to finance the development of a network of maintenance of roads of general purpose," the explanatory document to the order says. "The redistributed funds will be used for small repairs and maintenance of the roadway."
Read alsoUkravtodor calls tender to hire independent road repairs controllerAs UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine's Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman called for the efficient use of budget funds to be earmarked for repairs to national roads and insisted on higher quality standards of repair work performed.
The government will closely monitor how public funds are spent and how contractors work, he said.
The prime minister also urged road maintenance authorities to use ProZorro e-procurement system to efficiently spend their resources.