A new wave of school construction is planned in Georgia. This was announced by the Minister of Infrastructure, Revaz Sokhadze, emphasizing that bringing order to school infrastructure remains one of the priority and most pressing tasks. According to him, a number of problems have accumulated in the industry, which the ministry is now working to address intensively, but he did not specify the exact number of new schools.
The Minister noted that school infrastructure issues remain one of the key challenges within the framework of educational reform. The agency is simultaneously developing an 11-year strategic plan initiated by the Prime Minister, which covers both short-term tasks for the coming year and long-term development of road, sports, educational, and cultural infrastructure throughout the country.
As part of the strategy, the ministry intends to intensify the construction of sports and cultural facilities in municipalities so that residents of every city and village have access to them. At the same time, a large-scale state project is already underway: according to the government report for 2023, Georgia plans to build 80 new schools and reconstruct 720 in 2022-2026, investing about 1 billion GEL in the program. Exact data on the current stage of reconstruction have not yet been disclosed.
