"Since the government's decision N 355-L of March 26, 2020, it is planned to increase the productivity index to 12 dollars GDP-person/hour, it is proposed to extend the deadline of the target program until December 31, 2025," Minister of Economy Gevorg reported at the government meeting. Papoyan.
According to him, the requirement of 500 million drams and more submitted to consulting audit organizations within the framework of the program should be reduced to 400 million drams, allowing the involvement of more consulting audit organizations. 20-70% of their calculated other payments, Papoyan said during the years of the project, 763 applications were received for this purpose and 45 organizations with 510 highly qualified persons became beneficiary organizations. possibility of high self-financing, and in Europe, both are highly competitive and low value added sectors.
"The subsidy for wages and other payments of highly qualified engaged employees is reduced from 20% to 10%. 30% instead of 50%, 70% - 50%," said Papoyan and, explaining that 95% and more of the beneficiaries of the program are the IT sector, he added. "Since 2025, a lot of support has been provided to the sector, 30 billion drams per year, we are making this reduction in order to ensure competition among the sectors, and we believe that the sector is already receiving a lot of support from the government and this reduction is justified."
Mher Grigoryan, who chaired the session, asked the Minister of Health Anahit Avanesyan whether they provide assistance to medical centers to buy equipment under this program.
The Minister of Health, who appeared at the session wearing a mask, apologized that the voice was cut off and confirmed that it was being given. Mher Grigoryan responded. "So the program is not going so well if we did not import equipment that would ensure the voice of the minister." Gevorg Papoyan said that 24 billion drams were allocated to the healthcare sector for this purpose and 140 billion were directed to import new equipment in the field of the developed industry.
