In March 2010 must start the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the second and third class roads in 14 projects in OP Regional Development. They are under priority "Regional and local accessibility, operation 2 of the " Regional and local road infrastructure". This became possible after the Minister of Regional Development Rosen Plevneliev and Chairman of the Board of Agency Road Infrastructure (API) engineer Dimitar Ivanov signed contracts for the provision of a grant program to a specific beneficiary road agency. Contracts have a total value of 216 million Euro and provide funds for reconstruction and rehabilitation of 183 kilometers and 476 kilometers second class third class routes serving intra-relations and providing access to areas with potential for tourism development.
Contracts have a total value of euro 216 million and provide funds for reconstruction and rehabilitation of 183 kilometers second class roads and 476 kilometers third class routes serving internal links and providing access to areas with potential for tourism development. The deadline for implementation of the contracts is 24 months, which means that the tenders for the selection of contractors should be held as soon as possible. "We sign these 14 contracts with the desire to have it here first, and to continue onwards with new ones. By the end of November the Agency "Road Infrastructure" we expect to propose new projects that we consider and approve funding for the remaining 300 million euro of the total 500 million, which we present in this mid-term Framework Program, "said Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Liliana Pavlova.
We discussed options for establishing a working group between representatives of the API and regional road offices in order to ensure constant monitoring of projects, because we could not afford any compromises in terms of deadlines for completion, added engineer Dimitar Ivanov , Chairman of the Board of API.