Grounds placed on area of construction of Chisinau-Straseni-Calarasi water main to switch to state property in Moldova

Chisinau, 2 November /MOLDPRES/ - Over 800 grounds placed on the area where the works on construction of the Chisinau-Straseni-Calarasi water main will be carried out, declared as public utility of national interest, will temporarily switch to the state property. The cabinet of ministers approved a decision to this respect on 1 November.    
The document establishes the grounds subjected to expropriation, the mechanism of settling denunciations and the mechanism of compensation, the composition of the ad hoc commission which will settle each case, depending on the needs.  
As for the payment of compensations to expropriated people, this will be made with the financial means allocated from the state budget. The estimated value of the compensations is 2.5 million lei (125,000 euros).     
The approval of the draft decision will allow initiating the works of construction of the Chisinau-Straseni-Calarasi water main, as a result of which about 170,000 citizens from the settlements of the Straseni and Calarasi district will have access to drinking water from sure sources and at qualitative water supply services.  
The project on the construction of the water main is implemented by the Centru Regional Development Agency and is financed by the German Federal Government through the KfW German Development Bank.