YEREVAN, DECEMBER 13, NOYAN TAPAN. The heat supply systems of 45 rural schools of the republic were restored during the recent one year within the framework of the city heating credit program of the World Bank. As Tamara Babayan, the Director of the Restored Energetics and Energy Economy Fund implementing the program informed journalists on Decemberr 12, heating supply systems of 100 schools of 47 cities are envisaged to restore within the framework of the program. The total value of the program is 6.2 mln U.S. dollars, 5 mln dollars of which are the WB credit, the rest is the RA Government's co-financing. In T.Babayan's words, according to 2005 data, 202 schools of the cities of the republic, except Yerevan, where about 87 thousand pupils study, has the heating program. The Fund Director also stated that about 19 mln drams (about 50 thousand U.S. dollars) are spent on restoration of the heating supply of one school.

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