Armenia’s Public Investment Committee approves six projects
The approved package includes M-6 flood repairs, a new Dilijan tunnel and national mapping, alongside plans for irrigation and Yerevan’s firefighting capacity.
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The approved package includes M-6 flood repairs, a new Dilijan tunnel and national mapping, alongside plans for irrigation and Yerevan’s firefighting capacity.
Armenia’s Public Investment Committee approved six projects covering transport, national mapping, irrigation and firefighting at its ninth meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The Prime Minister’s Office details plans for tunnel evacuation links and a common national mapping system, alongside work still needed to assess the irrigation proposal.
The M-6 road project follows the May 2024 floods, which damaged sections of the highway linking Vanadzor and Alaverdi with the border at Bagratashen.
The proposed Dilijan tunnel would be 2,365 metres long and run parallel to the existing tunnel, approximately 50 metres to its left. The existing tunnel would become an evacuation route, connected to the new tunnel at 500-metre intervals so road users could leave quickly in an emergency.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the new tunnel would be designed for a Category 2 road and comply with European Union Directive 2004/54/EC, which sets minimum safety requirements for tunnels in the Trans-European Road Network. The design includes modern engineering and safety systems, with automated controls.
The M-6 project would restore damaged road sections, add riverbank protection and retaining walls against future Debed River flooding, and provide protection against rockfalls. The Pushkin Tunnel project would repair and modernize its structure, upgrade engineering systems and introduce modern road and fire-safety measures.
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The programme also envisages high-resolution three-dimensional city models, mobile road mapping and surveys measuring the depths of water bodies. It would standardize cadastral data—records about land and property—develop thematic datasets and digital services, and modernize the National Geoportal with supporting information-security infrastructure.
Meeting participants said bringing this information together was important for strategic planning, forecasting, decision-making, public management and operational efficiency.
The firefighting project would strengthen the Yerevan Rescue Department. Armen Mkrtchyan, Armenia’s deputy minister of internal affairs, said its firefighting vehicles had not been renewed since 2010 and were worn out, technologically obsolete and frequently breaking down. He said fires at high-rise buildings, hazardous industrial sites and critical infrastructure in Yerevan and nearby areas require ladder trucks reaching at least 35 metres.
The approvals concern project proposals, rather than announced construction or procurement starts. The Prime Minister’s Office has not specified budgets, financing arrangements, procurement timetables or implementation dates.
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