Cabinet adopts urgent measures to ease the suffering of people affected by fires erupted in Lattakia, Tartous and Homs

DAMASCUS,(ST)_Upon President Bashar al-Assad’s directives to adopt urgent measures to ease the suffering of the citizens  affected by fires in Lattakia, Tartous ,Homs and al-Ghab region, the Cabinet approved a comprehensive plan to compensate the people affected by the fires and enable them to cultivate and invest their lands in order to let them go on.

 

During its weekly session held on Tuesday and chaired by Prime Minister Hussein Arnous , the Cabinet adopted a plan that includes providing farmers  with direct financial support to compensate for their entire season affected by the fires ;handing them over 50% of the payment during this year and 25 % in each of  the two next years.

 

The Cabinet also approved a plan to rehabilitate the damaged houses, compensate farmers for dead livestock ,exempt them from half of their prices and give them soft loans and to send 59 engineering vehicles to rehabilitate the lands. 

 

The number of villages that were affected by fires reached 252, while the number of citizens affected by fires  is 18,700 and the affected areas are 8,900 hectares.

 

Two million trees were burnt in the fires. 

 

Moreover, the cabinet adopted the final formula of the General budget’s draft law for the fiscal year 2021 amounted at SYP 8500 billion.

 

Basma Qaddour