During its March 29 session, the Government of Armenia decided to liquidate the Directorate for Automobile Roads of Armenia State Non-Commercial Organization (SNCO).

Armenia’s Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies Hakob Arshakyan presented the issue and stated that the functions of the SNCO have to be carried out through the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies. According to him, the government’s decision will allow to save some funds with respect to maintenance expenses of the SNCO. The liquidation of the Organization will help save the maintenance expenses for the administration of the organization, that is, AMD 37.57 mln. “The SNCO has been optimized. In particular, 75% of the administration has been laid off, 55% of fuel expenses and more than 30% of vehicles have been reduced,” the minister said, adding that the employees of the SNCO will become a part of the ministry. Arshakyan stated that the ministry has a powerful laboratory for the activities that has been replenished with new, state-of-the-art equipment. In his turn, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan stated the following: “We have to record such a boom in road construction that the laboratory of the ministry only performs state orders.”