A sum of 3.527 billion lei was planned for financing capital investments in the 2018 state budget, 52.2% of this sum being the contribution of projects supported with foreign funds, IPN reports.
A sum of 127 million lei was earmarked for building the Ungheni – Chisinau gas pipeline. Also, there will be reconstructed the Palanca customs post and modernized the infrastructure of the Leuseni customs office and the Sculeni, Giurgiulesti and Costesti customs posts. Sanitary facilities will be built at 23 customs posts.
In the sector managed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment, financing will be provided for building a controlled atmosphere storehouse for the state commission for testing types of plants and a storehouse for keeping agricultural products and machinery for the same commission.
It is also planned to construct a number of residential complexes, to implement the Road Program, to renovate the Emergency Admissions Unit of the Emergency Medicine Institute, to repair the sports complex of the State Teacher Training University “Ion Creanga”, the Music and Drama Theater “B.P Hasdeu” of Cahul and other important facilities.
The capital costs in the national public budget for 2018, taking into account the investments planned by the local public authorities, will total 6.144 billion lei, up 5% on 2017. The capital costs will represent 14.9% of the GDP, as opposed to 11.4% in 2017.
