2005News

1,132 projects await completion

Participacion Ciudadana Civic Movement (PC) has published a “National Inventory of Frozen Public Constructions 1960-2004” which indicates that some 1,132 public works have not been completed in the DR. The inventory determined that the value of these unfinished works totals approximately RD$24.836 billion, and that another RD$12.666 billion would be required to complete them. Most of the unfinished work corresponds to the education sector (296), health (33), housing projects (35), roads (416) and tap water or aqueduct systems (77). PC Executive Director Javier Cabreja stated that unfinished works are one of the main causes of dilapidation of state resources.