Development Minister Adrian Vestea said on Thursday that an amount of about three billion lei is currently needed to reach the current payments for the projects carried out through the National Investment Company, the National Local Development Program 1 and 2. and the “Angel Saligni” program. On Thursday, the government approved the allocation of 255 million lei from the reserve fund in this regard.

The Minister of Development noted at the press briefing held after the Government meeting on Thursday that the General Secretariat of the Government centralizes requests from all administrative and territorial units regarding the need for funds.

Thus, at the meeting of the executive power next week, a budgetary allocation agreed with the Ministry of Finance will be made from the Reserve Fund, which is at the disposal of the Government, to balance the budgets of local state authorities.” said Adrian Vestea, News.ro reports.

• “I can present the situations that we manage at the level of the Ministry of Development through the programs that we implement, and according to our estimates, today, in order to reach modern payments, we need approximately 3 billion lei for the National Investment Company, PNDL 1 and 2 , as well as “Anghel Saligny” programs, said Adrian Vesteaasked how much money the municipalities would need to cover the needs at the end of the year.

On Thursday, the government approved the allocation of 250 million lei from the Reserve Fund to the Ministry of Development to make payments for works carried out under the “Construction of Public and Social Importance” program.

News: We have delays in payments for two or three weeks

The Minister presented the current situation with the calculations that will be made within the framework of the projects that are managed by the Ministry of Development.

“Now, National Investment Company manages and has 1151 projects under implementation. The cost of these projects is 15 billion lei. At the moment, an amount of 3.5 billion lei has been paid, and we have payments until August 8. Apparently, a payment of approximately 800 million lei remains.

Another program that is about to end – we speak National programs of local development 1 and 2. We have 11,543 contracts worth 46 billion. We have received and have final acceptance of 8,102 contracts and we still have 3,441 contracts in progress.

Fully calculated, we have a value of 40.6 billion. We have a balance to settle in the next period, as the work progresses, 5.8 billion. As we can see, we have more than 90% progress in these programs. We have payments under this program up to September 15, and we have a balance of payments of approximately 415 million.

We also have National program of Angel Salignaa program for which 5304 ministerial orders were issued. As we well know, this program concerns both road infrastructure, water supply, sewerage, and the introduction of methane gas.

Out of 5,304 projects, we have signed 2,607 projects, every week we sign somewhere over 50-60 projects, depending on how they manage to upload the data required to achieve the milestone on the platform provided by the Ministry of Development and Public Works. . And in this program we have a calculation until September 15. We also have a balance of payments of 1.85 billion lei.

About the national recovery and resilience programThe Ministry of Development has 6,627 contracts worth 32.7 billion lei. To date, payments have been made for 4,842 projects.

We are in a situation where we pay every day and have a delay of a few weeks, two, three weeks at most,” said the minister.