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07-21-2008, 03:10 PM
The Ministry of Public Works has announced the hiring of 10,000 part-time workers to complete a series of street, highway and rural road construction projects under the re-launching of the National Asphalt Plan. The Minister, Victor Diaz Rua, told Listin Diario reporters that he has been planning the re-launch of the program for some time. The minister added that his office was beginning a process of evaluating more than 400 public works projects that are currently under way in order to determine which of them fulfill the President's requirement of being 75% completed in order to be finished. These include bridges, avenues and buildings such as hospitals and the District Attorney's Offices. Diaz Rua talked about the RD$50 billion involved in all these projects currently under way, saying that some of them will have to be put on hold until the 2009 budget is worked out. According to the minister, many of the 10,000 temporary workers are regularly employed by the ministry, so this will not bring about an additional expense to the budget.
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