Resettlement to Kalbajar district to start in 2024

In 2024, about 13,000 people will be resettled in the liberated Kalbajar district, among them over 5,000 citizens will be resettled in new houses in the administrative centre, and about 8,000 citizens more - in villages and towns, State Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture First Deputy Chairman Namig Hummatov said.

He made the remarks following the meeting of the Working Group on Urban Planning in Kalbajar, Report informs.

Hummatov noted that 3,500 housing units (2,000 private houses and 1,500 apartments) will be built and commissioned in the Kalbajar district by 2026.

“Among them, 1,115 housing units will be commissioned by 2024, 725 by 2025, and the last 1,610 houses will be ready by 2026,” he said.

He also stressed that in 2023, a total of 1,105.19 hectares of the territory of the Kalbajar district is planned to be cleaned.

According to him, in 8 months of the current year, 653.46 ha (59.1 per cent) of the territory of the district was cleared of mines.

Hummatov noted that in 2022, 983.71 ha of land in the residential areas was cleared of mines.

He added that following the presidential decree dated 18.03.2021 on urban development in the liberated territories, the Committee has ensured the allocation of 400 ha of land for 40 construction objects in the Kalbajar district to the relevant customer institutions.

In accordance with the relevant order of the Head of the Coordination Headquarters, a regular meeting of the Working Group on Urban Development was held in Kalbajar City.

This meeting is the first meeting of the Working Group on Urban Development in East Zangezur Economic Region, and the first meeting held in the city of Kalbajar.

Special representative of the Azerbaijani president in Lachin district Masim Mammadov, General Director of Bakı Abadlıq LLC Bunyad Gasimov, employees of Rehabilitation, Construction and Management Service No.2 and other officials attended the meeting.

According to Mammadov, it is planned to relocate 500 families to Kalbajar by May 2024.