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Fraudulent Promises and Deceived Personnel

April 11, 2007

bagzeb.gifAdigeni Municipality does not keep its promise. Three-month work of the personnel at nursery schools will not be reimbursed. (Photo: Tina Kometiani, director of the Adigeni Nursery School.)

An argument about the nursery schools has not finished yet. Since October of 2006 the nursery schools, though liquidated by the government, continued their activities on the basis of oral agreement with the authority.

The same was situation in the Adigeni District: Nursery School never stopped its activities.

“I arrived at the Municipality to find out the situation but they told us to go on working. Now they tell us who would give us money as we were liquidated. They said we should have stopped working,” declares Tina Kometiani, director of the Adigeni Nursery School.

Adigeni Municipality does not apportion fund for salaries for January, February and March. 

“We could not fund the institutions that do not exist,” said Zurab Chilingarashvili, governor of the Adigeni Municipality.

“They did not care about my thirty-year working experience. I was coming to their office and they promised me to give salaries. Finally they say we cannot receive salaries,” said Kometiani.

After a long argument, Adigeni Municipality envisaged funds for the nursery schools in the budget. However…

“A nursery school has many bills to pay-electricity bills, water bills…Now they have created new fee on a chair. We should pay 25 tetri for each chair. We have 28 children at the nursery school so we have to pay seven lari a month. Please answer me, why should we pay that money? Maybe seven lari is not much money but if we calculate all bills it runs up quite a large sum,” said Kometiani.

“Parents said that they do not want their children to be fed with half-boiled macaroni and one potato put into the water. So they are ready to pay more than six lari to resolve nutrition problem for their children. However, Municipality has ordered not to raise the fee over six lari,” said Kometiani.

“We have apportioned 25 lari for each child. It is really enough,” said the governor.

“I will receive 6 lari from the parent and the municipality will apportion 25 lari for each child. That makes 31 lari and how can I keep a child with that money for a month and pay bills and salaries in addition to that,” said Kometiani.

The director of the Nursery School does not feel herself protected and she says that she lives in fear.

“When we worked and they ordered us not to close nursery schools we made fees. I carry that money, 700 lari everyday in my bag. I am afraid somebody will blame me for abusing my power. Now I am going to return that money to parents but who will pay our debts at the shops we had taken for the children’s food, I do not know,” says Kometiani.

Gulo Kokhodze, Adigeni

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