Parliament discusses police and NSS budgets for next year
22.10.2010,
22:53
The 2011 draft budget has earmarked a total of 24.6 billion Drams for Armenian Police Force, by one billion Drams more than projected for 2010, a deputy finance minister Pavel Safarian said today during a parliament discussion on next year’s budget.
YEREVAN, October 22, /ARKA/. The 2011 draft budget has earmarked a total of 24.6 billion Drams for Armenian Police Force, by one billion Drams more than projected for 2010, a deputy finance minister Pavel Safarian said today during a parliament discussion on next year’s budget.
The deputy minister said the bulk of the amount, 23.6 billion Drams, will be directed to protection of the social order, 173 million Drams to the department in charge of issuing passports and visas, 591 million Drams to social protection.
A deputy police chief, Hovhannes Hunanian, said the Police Force plans to spend 73 million Drams on purchase of medications and will also raise the median wages of contract servicemen of interior troops to 87,000 Drams and the wages of career police officers to 133,700 Drams.
The National Security Service (NSS) will get 10.6 billion Drams of funding next year, according to its deputy chief Feliks Tsolakian. The projected amount is by 873 million Drams more than the agency is to get this year. He said 6.5 billion Drams are earmarked as wage-fund, by 611.6 million more than is projected for this year.
The National Security Service plans to spend 26 million Drams on medical treatment and purchase of medications for the staff and 272 million Drams on learning of its officers in Russia.
The Armenian government plans to spend in 2011 as much as 998.4 billion Drams ($2.8 billion), up from 935.5 billion Drams projected for this year and boost budgetary revenues by 14.6 percent, to 850 billion drams. That would translate into a budget deficit equivalent to almost 4 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These targets are based on the assumption that the Armenian economy will grow by 4.6 percent in 2011. ($1- 360. 54 Drams). -0-
The deputy minister said the bulk of the amount, 23.6 billion Drams, will be directed to protection of the social order, 173 million Drams to the department in charge of issuing passports and visas, 591 million Drams to social protection.
A deputy police chief, Hovhannes Hunanian, said the Police Force plans to spend 73 million Drams on purchase of medications and will also raise the median wages of contract servicemen of interior troops to 87,000 Drams and the wages of career police officers to 133,700 Drams.
The National Security Service (NSS) will get 10.6 billion Drams of funding next year, according to its deputy chief Feliks Tsolakian. The projected amount is by 873 million Drams more than the agency is to get this year. He said 6.5 billion Drams are earmarked as wage-fund, by 611.6 million more than is projected for this year.
The National Security Service plans to spend 26 million Drams on medical treatment and purchase of medications for the staff and 272 million Drams on learning of its officers in Russia.
The Armenian government plans to spend in 2011 as much as 998.4 billion Drams ($2.8 billion), up from 935.5 billion Drams projected for this year and boost budgetary revenues by 14.6 percent, to 850 billion drams. That would translate into a budget deficit equivalent to almost 4 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These targets are based on the assumption that the Armenian economy will grow by 4.6 percent in 2011. ($1- 360. 54 Drams). -0-
