After the 44-day bloody war, the KGS Ministry spent 338 million 550 thousand drams or about 872 thousand 550 US dollars on amateur tournaments, KGS Deputy Minister Karen Giloyan told Yerkir.am.
A remarkable picture emerges when we examine the millions spent on individual tournaments. For example, the Parakar-Ejmiadzin cross-country race was initiated twice, again on the same route. 41 million 690 thousand were spent on each of the cross-country races million 715 thousand drams (the second will be spent on September 23), and spent 35 million 631 thousand on cross-country running. dram
The distance from Parakar village to Echmiadzin is only 13 km, I wonder what so many million drams were spent on? for numbering the clothes, buying bottled water, printing awards, or getting a trophy or rewarding the winner? In the case of the obstacle race initiated on October 25. What kind of urgent or important event is this, that only a month before that, in a country that was bleeding from the war and had a thousand and one needs on its borders, so much could be spent?
In addition, the same amount of money has been allocated for some types of tournaments every year. 25,724,236 drams (around 66,300 USD) were planned, 25,724,200 (around 66,300 USD) in 2023. The same is true for some other tournaments to spend the money and kept the same line every year without delving into the current year’s government revenues, urgent needs, etc.
In fact, these enormous sums were spent on just one line of the Ministry of Education and Culture, measures that could probably be initiated by ordinary governorates or village administrations, spending not hundreds of thousands of dollars, but drams on each and getting the same result.
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