ZAGREB, March 21 (Hina) - Croatia's Minister of Public Works, Construction and Reconstruction, Radimir Cacic, has described the situation in the construction industry as disastrous. Therefore it is the task of my ministry and the
incumbent government to help building enterprises be engaged in programmes of socially encouraged house-building, reconstruction and in the production of building material. On Wednesday Cacic toured three construction companies -Industrogradnja, Hidroelektra-Niskogradnja and Tehnika - managers of which briefed him of the situation in those firms. The three companies are employing 70,000 workers, and it accounts for some 15 percent of all employees in the construction industry. This sector is the only branch to have seen a dramatic decline compared to the manufacturing industry and trade. House-building has substantially fell. Until 1990 Croatia had 10,000 flats buil
ZAGREB, March 21 (Hina) - Croatia's Minister of Public Works,
Construction and Reconstruction, Radimir Cacic, has described the
situation in the construction industry as disastrous.
Therefore it is the task of my ministry and the incumbent government
to help building enterprises be engaged in programmes of socially
encouraged house-building, reconstruction and in the production of
building material.
On Wednesday Cacic toured three construction companies -
Industrogradnja, Hidroelektra-Niskogradnja and Tehnika -
managers of which briefed him of the situation in those firms.
The three companies are employing 70,000 workers, and it accounts
for some 15 percent of all employees in the construction industry.
This sector is the only branch to have seen a dramatic decline
compared to the manufacturing industry and trade.
House-building has substantially fell. Until 1990 Croatia had
10,000 flats built yearly, and since then there have been merely
1,000 flats built per annum.
Cacic informed the firms' leaders of plans for the reconstruction
of war-destroyed houses, and told them that this year some 7,000
houses should be renovated for returnees.
He added that under the programme for the construction of flats
affordable for poorer citizens, 700 to 800 flats should be built
this year.
(hina) sb ms