SOFIA (Bulgaria), April 1 (SeeNews) – The Bulgarian government said on Wednesday it has decided to allocate 14 million levs ($7.7 million/7.2 million euro) from the state budget to dealing with damages caused by heavy snowfall and floods in the past few months.
The money will go mainly to cover damages to road infrastructure and riverbeds and to dams construction, the government said in a statement after a regular meeting.
Last month Bulgaria received 20.6 million levs from the EU Solidarity Fund to cope with damages in the eight municipalities most-affected by floods that devastated the country last summer.
Floods triggered by record rainfall in northern and northeastern Bulgaria last summer claimed at least 16 lives and forced mass evacuations in affected areas.
In February, regional development minister Lilyana Pavlova said that damages from late January's natural disasters in Bulgaria top 20 million levs and the amount is expected to grow because the assessment of damages since the beginning of the year has still not been completed.
(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)