In the floods that hit Serbia this year, about 1,200 residential buildings were damaged, and a state of emergency was declared in 27 places due to that disaster. The director of the Public Investment Management Office, Marko Blagojevic, told RTS that the damage assessments are still ongoing and that some frameworks that were necessary for the Government to adopt the reconstruction program are now known.
Blagojevic said that in parallel with the assessments of residential buildings, an assessment of the needs for the arrangement of preventive infrastructure is being done.
After that, as he said, the damage and needs assessment of the local infrastructure, roads, bridges, water supply systems, sewage, landslides will follow.
However, he points out that the number one priority is the assessment of the damage to housing facilities, so that the payment of assistance to families starts as soon as possible.
According to him, there was catastrophic precipitation in Ljubovija, 210 liters of rain per square meter, so the needs are being assessed there and in other places, given the known risks and amounts of precipitation, Nova Ekonomija reports.
