WORKING TEAM SOLVES THE PROBLEM OF POPULATION IN LANDSLIDE
10.06.2013
At the meeting of the City Council there was a task force formed to develop a plan of activities and measures to solve the housing problems of the villagers from Mramor and Krušce, whose houses are threatened by landslide. Some of the residents have spent over a month in tents next to the City Hall, in order to encourage the city government to help them. It was decided at the meeting of the City Council that Coordinator of the Task Team to address housing damaged by landslides in Mramor and Krusce will be Predrag Savic, a city councilor, and the team will also consist of Boban Dzunic, President of Municipality of Palilula, Milos Stojkovic, President of Assembly of Palilula, as well as representatives of the town planning Institute of Property and Inspection Nis, Department of City of Nis, Republic Geodetic Authority and the Department of Planning and construction.
"The working team will have the task to review the report of the Commission for review of the decision regarding the provision of assistance to the residents of rural areas of Mramor and Krušce whose houses were declared uninhabitable," he told the meeting. They will have the task of determining the number of households and the criteria and ways of solving the housing problems of the villagers, to determine the mechanisms for understanding the situation on the ground and assist the inhabitants of these areas. The working team will also be responsible for the project to help these families. The project will be presented to the City Council first, and if it is accepted by the Council, then it will be presented to the representatives of the Ministry and the Government of the Republic of Serbia, which is supposed to finance the installation and assembly houses to urban land. City of Niš has a duty to ensure communal infrastructure for the construction and installation of residential properties that will be financed by the competent ministry.
"We have to do so within the stipulated time and Report was submitted to the Ministry in 6th of June. For this purpose, the City budget is allocated with 15 million, and Republic assets should be provided after the revision of the national budget, explained alderman Predrag Savic.
In Mramor and Krusce there are 34 households whose structures are prohibited to use the decision of the competent inspection due to the consequences of landslides. The inhabitants of these villages are living in rented apartments for over 8 years since it happened, and the city is paying monthly aid to them of 13,000 dinars. To finally resolve their housing, inhabitants were on strike for over a month, living in tents next to the Town Hall. When the city promised to give them the land, and the Ministry of construction promised to donate prefabricated houses on the land, the strikers decided to move their tents, adding that they would come back if nothing changes in terms of their problems. Otherwise, the construction of a prefabricated house of 50 square meters, according to councilors Savic is, cost about 350 euros per square meter, for a total of about 2 million. For 10 houses cost are about 20 million.