Minister of Development, Public Works and Administration Cseke Attila declared on Wednesday that the national investment programme "Anghel Saligny" will focus only on the connection to the water and sewage system, to natural gas and to the improvement road infrastructure, agerpres reports.
The Minister added that 57 percent of the administrative-territorial units do not have their own sewerage network.
"As regards the connection of the population to the natural gas network, 70 percent of the ATUs do not have natural gas networks, while 30 percent do have, in number of 955. With regard to the road system, as many as 20,000 kilometers of county roads are not modernized in Romania, accounting for 57 percent of the county road network, more than 27,000 kilometers of communal roads, representing 80 percent of the total, are not upgraded to today's standards. In the next period, the Ministry of Development proposes this investment programme to meet these important needs of local communities to develop along these three important levels," said the minister.