Public Works Reactivation
03 May 2024
Governor Rogelio Frigerio announced the reactivation of public works in Entre Ríos. The agreed mechanism guarantees the flow of funds to reactivate the works that the new management received with 20,000 million pesos of debt and without the necessary financing to carry them out. They will also work on a strategic infrastructure plan together with the private sector.
The reactivation of the works is the culmination of a work process that began as soon as the new government administration began.
The president made the announcement after the meeting in which members of the Chamber of Construction, the Construction Workers’ Union (Uocra) and the Ministry of Planning, Infrastructure and Services (MPIS) of Entre Ríos participated.
In this framework, Frigerio valued the agreement that will allow “de-neutralizing public works and the financial flow.”
For his part, the Minister of Planning, Infrastructure and Services, Darío Schneider, maintained that “this is a first step to be able to resume the prioritized public works and value the unprecedented sanitation work that we have carried out in the ministry regarding financial health. for the works”.
“The prioritization is placed on works with a high degree of building progress, with a focus on road, educational, health infrastructure and strategic projects where failure to advance would generate deterioration of the same and would imply more costs for all Entre Ríos residents,” Schneider explained. .
Later, Frigerio also received leaders from the Industrial Union of Entre Ríos (UIER), the Commercial and Grain Exchanges, the Business Council, the Colleges of Engineers, Architects and Brokers, and the Argentine Agrarian Federation (FAA). Entre Ríos, with whom they advanced in a dialogue table to strategically plan the public works of the province.
“Many times, in the past, the private sector worked on infrastructure programs and plans. But when they approached the government, they always ended up archived. That is not going to happen anymore. This year we are going to submit to the Legislature for treatment a plan agreed upon by all to transform it into law and a State Policy that transcends successive governments,” Frigerio stated.
The dialogue table was also attended by the Minister of Treasury and Finance, Julio Panceri, the directors of Provincial Roads (DPV), Exequiel Donda, and the Autonomous Institute of Planning and Housing (IAPV), Manuel Schönhals, and the coordinator of the Provincial Execution Unit (UEP), Gustavo Cusinato; among other officials.
