Gov’t writes off students’ debts, offers $8,000 to families for each 32 victims of Shovi landslide

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday announced the Government would write off ₾40 million ($15.22mln) in debt for about 30,000 students that would allow them to continue their studies in higher educational institutions. 

 

He also said his office would allocate $8,000 for each 32 victims in August deadly landslides in the Shovi resort of western Georgia. 

 

The PM also claimed those affected by landslides in the Guria region, in the country’s west, earlier this month would be offered alternative houses or funds to buy new accommodations if their houses were unfit to live or collapsed following the disaster. 

 

The members of the domestic opposition claimed the PM had tried to overshadow a scandal related to his US trip in August by annulling of students’ debts, while calling the compensation to the families of disaster victims as “insulting”.