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Photos from CTA's workshop on "Implementing climate-smart solutions for next-generation ACP agriculture", from 22-25 January 2019, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Brasil es un caso exitoso en el tema de Alimentación Escolar. Implementado por el Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo de la Educación (FNDE) y del Ministerio de Educación, con 60 años de existencia, el Programa Nacional de Alimentación Escolar (PNAE) ha ampliado sus objetivos, y hoy en día abarca desde el suministro de alimentos adquiridos de la agricultura familiar hasta la educación alimentaria y nutricional, atendiendo a más de 42 millones de estudiantes brasileños al día.
Para comemorar los 60 anos de las primeras acciones del gobierno federal en la área de alimentación escolar, el Ministério de la Educación y el Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo de la Educación (FNDE) lanzaron, en Brasília/Brasil, dia 10 de septiembre del año 2015, el Concurso “Melhores Receitas da Alimentação Escolar”, en el ámbito nacional cuyo objetivo era selecionar, premiar e divulgar receitas hechas por cocineras y cocineros de las escuelas públicas brasileñas. El concurso incluyó cuatro etapas para elegir las cinco mejores recetas del país – una para cada región brasileira. El resultado del concurso fue divulgado en una ceremonia oficial el día 28 de enero de 2016. Las cocineras ganadoras fueron:
a) Osmarina Pereira Assini
Receta: Torta Saborosa de batata doce com peixe
Escuela: Escolala Estadual Vereador Antônio Laurindo - Iporã (GO)
b) Dejanira de Souza
Receta: Abará de carne moída com aipim
Escuela: Escola Municipal Nossa Senhora Das Candeias – Salvador (BA)
c) Maria Arlete da Silva
Receta: Arroz de cuxá com charque
Escuela: Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Novo Horizonte – Parauapebas (PA)
d) Anilda Berger
Receta: Bolo salgado de arroz da Anilda
Escuela: Escola Municipal Unidocente de Ensino Fundamental Baixo Rio Pantoja - Santa Maria de Jetibá (ES)
e) Maria de Lurdes Fidelis
Receta: Torta de arroz nutritiva
Escuela: Escola Municipal Dom Pedro II – Matelândia (PR).
Fotos © Max Valencia/FAORLC
Prosperidad Social implementará convenios con organizaciones sociales y juntas de acción comunal (JAC) para los proyectos de infraestructura social y hábitat, que financia y ejecuta en los municipios más pobres del país. La directora de la entidad, Cielo Rusinque Urrego, lo anunció este viernes en el Congreso Nacional de Municipios, organizado por la Federación Nacional de Municipios en Cartagena de Indias.
“Tenemos capacidad legal para hacer estos convenios solidarios, en compañía con el ente territorial. Acompañaremos técnicamente lo que requieran, de acuerdo con la complejidad de las obras y la capacidad que haya en el territorio. Vincular a estas organizaciones beneficiará la economía popular y garantizará la participación de la comunidad”, explicó. Recordó que el Gobierno Nacional pretende fortalecer a las organizaciones sociales y comunitarias y fomentar su participación en los procesos de desarrollo territorial.
Las JAC integrarán el comité que seleccionará los proyectos de infraestructura. Serán priorizados de acuerdo con una clasificación que cruza criterios, entre esos, los índices de desnutrición, riesgo de victimización y pobreza multidimensional. El comité estará conformado por representantes de las JAC, el Ministerio de la Igualdad, la Consejería de Regiones, el ICBF, la Unidad para las Víctimas y Prosperidad Social.
La entidad tiene 500.000 millones de pesos destinados a la ejecución de obras de infraestructura social y hábitat durante este año. “100.000 millones de pesos están destinados a la subsanación de los proyectos pendientes de vigencias anteriores. El resto están destinados a obras en territorios que podamos apoyar, de acuerdo con las necesidades y con la aplicación del enfoque diferencial territorial”, informó Rusinque.
En el escenario del congreso de alcaldes, el subdirector de Programas y Proyectos de la entidad, Carlos Chinchilla, y el director de infraestructura, Eduardo Mesa, atendieron a alcaldes de municipios en los que hay proyectos suspendidos de vigencias anteriores, para acordar la realización de las mesas técnicas en las que revisarán la posibilidad de agilizarlos.
Desde noviembre pasado, la entidad organiza estas mesas técnicas para revisar la viabilidad de los proyectos de infraestructura social con mayor impacto en las condiciones de las poblaciones más vulnerables: con mayor incidencia de hambre y pobreza, y riesgos o consecuencias por el invierno. Desde entonces, ha logrado destrabar cerca de setenta obras en más de sesenta municipios del país. Algunas de estas obras fueron entregadas este mes durante una jornada nacional.
“Recibimos una ejecución del presupuesto del 5 %. En pocos meses, al finalizar el año, la llevamos a la ejecución de más del 75 %, mediante el acompañamiento en mesas técnicas para viabilizar y ejecutar los proyectos”, recordó Rusinque este viernes.
Cartagena Congreso Nacional de Municipios 2023 / Mar 31, 2023. (Fotografía Oficial Prosperidad Social / Joel González).
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Implementing organization / grant recipient: Eastern University Sri Lanka
Activity: Closing ceremony
Photo from Sindhu Sriram / Eastern University Sri Lanka, shared at the OSM Sri Lanka facebook page
Date: July 2, 2024
Location: Eastern University Sri Lanka - Chenkalady, Sri Lanka
These are the practical tools for collecting leaves. Rakes, blower, wheel barrow, and a leaf sweeper. But the leaves are wet and harder to work with.
Supply Chain Providers continue focusing on their core competencies to access, up-to-date, business wide systems without the expense and implemented hassles associated with in-house development. For more details please visit at:http://inoday.com/netsuite-development/
Tharparkar has been hit by severe dry weather and water shortage and Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan is determined to improve the condition by the implementation of various water projects like community hand pumps, submersible water pump and solar- powered water in this region. Recently, we have installed a new Submersible Water Pump at Village Senhar Vikia, District Tharparkar. This water project is expected to deliver clean water for drinking and domestic usage to nearly 33 families living in this village.
27 June 2014, Rome Italy - REDD+ implementation and sustainable forest management side event organized during the 22nd Committee on Forestry (COFO) and the 4th World Forest Week at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
For more information, see www.fao.org/forestry/cofo2014
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Photos from CTA's workshop on "Implementing climate-smart solutions for next-generation ACP agriculture", from 22-25 January 2019, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Combating waste trafficking demands international cooperation and a high-level of scientific expertise (to analyse the composition of waste, for instance). This is primarily the task of customs and port authorities, but initiatives for broader cooperation are developing, such as the European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL), which controls shipments in major European ports.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Emmanuelle Bournay
Tho' it looks too large, this is actually the best cleaning brush for a sewing machine. It is made of sheepskin, so is soft and removes all the unwanted fluff very delicately.
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15-08-20 Ministro Carlos Estremadoyro realizó viaje de trabajo a la región Cusco a fin de reunirse con autoridades locales e implementar medidas de acción frente al #Covid' 19.
Building on the ‘Ecosystem Landscaping to advance the Accountability to implement the Women’s Empowerment Principles in ASEAN’, the WeEmpowerAsia programme, UN women jointly develops and will disseminate the Building Pathways to Gender Equality and Sustainability through the Women's Empowerment Principles: Thailand Policy Brief (hereafter referred as ‘Thailand Policy Brief’) with key partners, namely the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Office of SMEs Promotion (OSMEP).
Gender Responsive Procurement (GRP) is one of the initiatives recommended in the Thailand Policy Brief. GRP can identify, incorporate and support women business owners seeking to access government/corporate procurement contracts. In support of the initiative, UN Women and Kenan Foundation Asia will host the “IDEA to I do”, a business presentation competition for selected women entrepreneurs, to showcase the capacity of WOB and WLB developed under WeEmpowerAsia Programme as means to promote women’s participation in supply chain. Winners will receive the WeRise Awards and the prizes are comprised of one winner, one first runner-up and one second runner-up.
Photo: UN Women/Daydream Organizer Co., Ltd.
About Dr.Mihir Kumar Panda, Ph.D,D.Litt,, innovator
World’s only achiever of large number of World Record for 10,000 Teaching Aids & innovations
Founder & Co-ordinator General, ‘SROSTI’ (Social Development research Organisation for Science, technology & Implementation)
Collaborator Vijnana Bana Ashram
Bahanaga, Baleshwar, Odisha, India-756042
Website : simpleinnovationproject.com
E-Mail- : mihirpandasrosti@gmail.com
Face Book link:https://www.facebook.com/mihirpandasrosti
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Dr.Mihir Kumar Panda, an Educational, Societal and Scientific Innovator has established an NGO 'SROSTI' at Bahanaga, Balasore,Odisha,India
Dr. panda has innovated/invented more than 10,000 (ten thousand) teaching aids and different innovations and he has more than 30,000 (Thirty thousand) ideas to make scientific and mathematical models.
His creations are very essential guide for school and college science exhibitions, innovative learning and play way method for the teachers and students, science activists, innovators, craftsmen, farmers, masons, physically challenged persons, common men, entrepreneurs and industrialists.
He is popularizing science through song, innovative demonstrations and motivational speech since 1990 in different parts of Odisha state without taking any fees.
Dr. Panda is an extreme motivational speaker in science and possess magical scientific demonstration and a crowd puller.
Innovator Mihir Kumar Panda loves nature and in his agricultural farm he does not uses the chemicals , fertilizers and pesticides. In his farm even the smallest creatures like snakes, caterpillar, white ants, worms ,vermies are in peace and are managed successfully not to do harm.
Dr. Panda is an Educationist, an environmentalist, a poet for science popularization, a good orator, a best resource person to train others in specific field of science and engineering.
The uniqueness of Simple Innovation and scientific activities and achievements ofDr. Panda can not be assessed without visiting his laboratory which is a living wonder in the realm of science.
From a small cake cutter to mechanical scissor, from a play pump to rickshaw operated food grain spreader and from a village refrigerator to a multi-purpose machine, thousands of such inventions and innovations are proof of Dr. Panda's brilliance.
From a tube well operated washing machine to weight sensitive food grain separator, from a password protected wardrobe to automatic screen, from a Dual face fan to electricity producing fan are example of few thousands of innovations and inventions of Mihir Kumar Panda.
Dr.Mihir Kumar Panda though bestowed to a popular name as Einstein of Odisha is obliviously treated as Thomas Alva Edison of India.
Dr. Panda's residential house also resembles a museum with scientific innovations of different shapes and sizes stacked in every nook and cranny which proves his scientific involvement in personal life.
Innovator Panda believes that , the best thing a child can do with a toy to break it. he also believes that by Educating child in his/her choice subject/ passion a progressive nation can be built.
The shelf made scientist Dr. Panda believes that Education is a life long process whose scope is far greater than school curriculum. The moulding of models/ innovations done by hand always better than the things heard and the facts incorporated in the books.
With no agricultural background, Dr. Panda has developed unique natural bonsai in his Vijnana Bana Ashram which also shows path for earning just by uprooting and nurturing the plants which are found to be small and thumb in nature.
Dr. Panda's Scientific Endeavour and research is no doubt praise worthy. One cannot but believe his dedicated effort in simple innovation laboratory.
Social service, innovation/ inventions, writing, free technology to students for preparation of science exhibition projects, free technology to common men for their sustainability, preparation of big natural bonsai, technology for entrepreneurs and industrialists for innovative item are few works of Mihir Kumar Panda after his Government service.
. To overcome the difficulties of science and math, explanation in classes, innovator Panda has created few thousands of educational, societal and scientific innovations which helps teachers and students of the country and abroad.
Dr. Panda believes that though inventions/innovation has reached under thousands and thousands deep in the sea and high up in the space. It has reached on moon and mars, but unfortunately the sustainable inventions/innovation has not properly gone to the tiny tots and common people.
Dr. Panda is amazing and wizard of innovations and works with a principle the real scientist is he, who sees the things simply and works high.
Dr.Mihir Kumar Panda's work can be explained in short
Sports with Science from Dawn to Dusk
Struggle some life- science in words and action
Triumphs of Science - Science at foot path
Hilarious dream in midst scarcity
A life of innovator de-avoided of Advertisement.
FELICITATIONS, AWARDS, HONOURS & RECORDS
* 200+ Felicitation and Awards from different NGOs, Schools & Colleges within the State of Odisha and National level.
* 10 Nos Gold, Silver & Bronze medal from different National & International level.
*Awarded for 10,000 innovations & 30,000 ideas by Indian Science Congress Association, Govt. of India.
* Honorary Ph.D From Nelson Mandela University, United States of America
* Honorary Ph.D From Global Peace University, United States of America& India
* Honorary D.Litt From Global Peace University, United States of America& India
* Title ‘Einstein of Odisha’ by Assam Book of Records, Assam
* Title ‘Thomas Alva Edison of India’ by Anandashree Organisation, Mumbai
* Title ‘ Einstein of Odisha & Thomas Alva Edison of India’ from Bengal Book of World record.
*World Record from OMG Book of Records
*World Record from Assam Book of Records,
* World Record from World Genius Records, Nigeria
* World Record from BengalBook of Records
* National Record from Diamond Book of Records
* World Record from Asian World Records
* World Record from Champians Book of World Records
* World Record from The British World Records
* World Record from Gems Book of World Records
* World Record from India Star World Record
* World Record from Geniuses World Records
* World Record from Royal Success International Book of Records
*World Record from Supreme World Records
* World Record from Uttarpradesh World Records
*World Record from Exclusive World Records
*World Record from international Book of Records
*World Record from Incredible Book of records
* World Record from Cholan Book of World Record
* World Record from Bravo International Book of World Record
* World Record from High Range Book of World Record
* World Record from Kalam’s World Record
* World Record from Hope international World Record
* International Honours from Nigeria
* Indian icon Award from Global Records & Research Foundation (G.R.R.F.)
* International Award from USA for the year’2019 as INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR-2019
* National level Excellence Leadership Award-2020 from Anandashree Organisation, Mumbai
* Best Practical Demonstrator & Theory instructor from Collector & District Magistrate,
Balasore.
* Best Innovator Award by Bengal Book.
* Popular Indian Award by Bengal Book.
* Great man Award by Bengal Book.
* Best Indian Award by Bengal Book.
* The Man of the Era by Bengal Book.
IMPORTANT LINK FILES TO KNOW THE WORK OF
Dr. MIHIR KUMAR PANDA
Dr.Mihir Ku panda awarded at indian science congress Association, Govt. of India for 10000 innovations & 30,000 ideas
Hindi Media report- Simple innovation science show for popularisation of science in free of cost by Dr.Mihir Ku Panda
Simple innovation science show for popularisation of science in free of cost in different parts of India By Dr.Mihirku Panda
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Simple innovation laboratory at a Glance
MORE LINK FILES OF Dr MIHIR KUMAR PANDA
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Presidente del Banco Mundial, Jim Yong Kim, visitó el distrito de Lamay (Cusco), donde se implementan programas del Ministerio de Desarrollo e Inclusión Social.
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Persistent Gender Inequality in Iraq Calls for Coordinated Efforts in Developing 2nd National Action Plan on Implementing Resolution 1325
Baghdad, Iraq, 3 October 2018 – Gender inequality continues to prevail in Iraq with worrisome signals that it is deepening, requiring intensified efforts and coordination in developing a new action plan on implementing UN Security Council resolution 1325, UN Representative to Iraq Ján Kubiš said today at the high-level consultation meeting on the development of the 2nd National Action Plan. Although he was encouraged to see progress in the protection pillar and dedicated efforts to strengthen the participation pillar in the National Action Plan, the legacy of the conflict with the terrorist Da’esh continues to hamper steps forward and there are other worrying signs of women being targeted.
Mr. Kubiš condemned the recent attacks against women, including the assassination of two women and the sudden death of two others in the past month, all of them active in political and social spheres. Other civil society activists including women are targeted by social media and political threat campaign, among others for their contacts with foreign embassies. This is unacceptable.
“Only once politically and socially active women are protected and safe, Iraq can claim to be making real progress towards women’s equality and empowerment,” he said.
The development of a new NAP with all the diversity and complexity of issues will require continuous coordination and collaboration across sectors, in particular involving civil society, and drawing from the lessons learned from the previous plan, the Special Representative said.
“By making your deliberations open to the society, by publicly broadcasting them you could mobilise even broader support for your objectives,” Mr. Kubiš said.
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq noted with disappointment that political forces that negotiate the formation of the government do so, again without the participation of women. “We all need to ask: “when the political leaders intend to deliver on their pledges to empower women and advance their rights as a part of the democratic entitlement of all Iraqis thus strengthening equal representation and inclusiveness? The time is now. Otherwise, all the exclamations about commitment to equality of women and values of democracy continue to sound hollow.”
Mr. Kubiš outlined UN efforts in support of women empowerment, noting that UNAMI supports women parliamentarians in their quest to establish a cross-political women’s parliamentary caucus. UNAMI will continue to impress on Political Parties who are key to advancing the participation of women in all processes to include women in their leadership structures, urging men advocates to assume a more prominent role, and parliamentarians to consider gender responsive budget in the next budget law to enhance the implementation of the NAP. The UN will also continue to advocate for the establishment of a dedicated institution in the next government structure with budget and authority to coordinate the implementation of the NAP and national frameworks and policies on WPS.
The UN in Iraq will also mobilise support of the broader international community, including through the International Gender Group from among embassies here in Baghdad, Mr. Kubiš concluded.
Photos by UNAMI PIO.
Implemented by UNDP, the RFS Nigeria project aims to foster sustainability and resilience for food security in Northern Nigeria through addressing key environmental and socioeconomic drivers of food insecurity.
Para evitar accidentes en las avenidas de la ciudad que registran tráfico pesado, la Secretaría de Vialidad y Tránsito de Monterrey implementó un operativo permanente para vigilar la velocidad de los traileres y camiones de carga que circulan por estas arterias.
Launch Conference
Regional Platform to Fast-Track the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in Central America
Roatán, Honduras;
25-27 April 2023
Ministro Carlos Lozada entregó 200 camas a @MuniLima para implementar albergue temporal que se implementa en la Plaza de Acho.
Este mobiliario, junto con colchones, almohadas y otros implementos, fue entregado por el Proyecto Especial Legado @Lima2019Juegos
También supervisaron los avances en la Villa Panamericana, donde se atenderá a pacientes con coronavirus que requieran hospitalización.
Balkar Combines is among the leading rotavator manufacturing company. We believe in developing new innovative technologies to ease out the farmer's life without paying much heat to their pockets.
For more details: www.balkarcombine.com
Britten recently headed up a large project that combined site surveys, hardware, print, and installation at several different Vail resorts across the country.
Following the on-site analysis at each resort (which was conducted in 6 different states in the span of a week), recommendations were made for specifically sized BannerStretch™ tensioned frames, silicone-edged fabric frames, and decal applications in other instances. Design templates were provided for each location and a unique piece of artwork was provided for every individual piece of media.
How Honduras managed to carry out genomic sequencing for the first time
June 2023
When microbiologist Soany Ávilez was selected to implement the genomic sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Honduras, she was amazed. In the wake of the pandemic, Soany had started working at the National Virology Laboratory in 2020 performing PCR tests. At that time, genomic sequencing to detect circulating variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 was carried out outside the country. But a project to provide Honduras with the capabilities to do it in situ and obtain faster results was being developed with technical support from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and financial support from the United States Government.
Although she lacked knowledge on the subject, Soany remembers that she longed for the opportunity to work in sequencing. "When they chose us (her and her partner Karla Romero) to implement sequencing in the country and move the area forward, I couldn't believe it," she says.
Genomic surveillance allows us to know the evolution of viruses and other pathogens as they change over time. Knowing those changes or mutations that can modify its transmissibility and severity, allows us to guide public health measures. During the pandemic, it was a key strategy to monitor the behavior of SARS-CoV-2 and a technique that is being integrated into the surveillance of other pathogens.
Karla Romero, the other microbiologist in charge of genomic surveillance, acknowledges that the implementation of sequencing in Honduras has been "a great challenge" that required a lot of "sacrifice and commitment" both inside and outside the laboratory.
The sequencing area had to be created from scratch. In 2022, the authorities selected and conditioned a space within the National Virology Laboratory. With the support of PAHO, a sequencer, supplies, reagents, and furniture were purchased, and Soany and Karla were trained in bioinformatics and genomic sequencing at the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Panama.
“All with the aim of strengthening the capacities for genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens in Honduras,” says Gabriela Rodriguez Segura, coordinator of the PAHO Project for the Consolidation of Genomic Sequencing Capacities in Honduras. Before these capacities were created at the local level, samples to determine the variants circulating in the country were sent to the laboratories of the Regional Network for Genomic Surveillance of COVID-19 (COVIGEN) created by PAHO to support countries without capacity to carry out sequencing in its territory.
In March 2023, the effort paid off and excitement took over the National Virology Laboratory when, after several attempts, the first sequencing of SARS-COV-2 in the country was successfully carried out. “We couldn't believe it,” says Soany. "We feel very happy because it was a great challenge and the result made us feel fulfilled."
On March 21, 2023, the results were obtained and it was the first time that the XBB sublineage of the omicron variant was detected in the country and by Honduran health professionals. For Karla, the key was “not to give up in the face of the biggest challenge”.
"It is a milestone for the country that genomic sequencing is being carried out," says Dr. Mitzi Castro, head of the National Health Surveillance Laboratory of Honduras. “It is a historic moment because we are starting from here to carry out future genomic surveillance of other pathogens of sanitary interest to the country,” she adds.
According to Dr. Castro, the country now has state-of-the-art technology. "The laboratory is at the forefront, and that is a success and a source of pride, for which we thank all those who have contributed their bit so that Honduras is not left behind."
As part of the implementation of its national SME development strategy, the Government of the DRC obtained a loan from the International Development Association (IDA) to finance the "Support Project for the Development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises", PADMPME.
Created in 2005, following the evaluation forum of the Congolese Women's Caucus, CAFCO is a platform of women from civil society and political parties committed to the promotion of women's specific human rights and the protection of the population's welfare.
The first week of October 2022, UN Women gave business registers to the first cohort of women who volunteered for formalization with the support of CAFCO. The event took place in the Mont Ngafula commune in Kinshasa.
Photo credit: UN Women/Yulia Panevina
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Dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de sa stratégie nationale de développement des PME, le Gouvernement de la RDC a obtenu de l’Association Internationale de Développement (IDA) un crédit pour financer le « Projet d’Appui au Développement des Micro, Petites et Moyennes Entreprises », PADMPME.
Créé en 2005, suite au forum d'évaluation du Caucus des femmes congolaises, CAFCO est une plateforme de femmes de la société civile et des partis politiques engagés dans la promotion des droits humains spécifiques des femmes et la protection du bien-être de la population.
La première semaine d'octobre 2022, ONU Femmes a remis des registres commerciaux à la première cohorte de femmes qui se sont portées volontaires pour la formalisation avec le soutien de CAFCO. L'événement a eu lieu dans la commune de Mont Ngafula à Kinshasa.
Crédit photo : ONU Femmes/Yulia Panevina
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Urge implementar el billetaje electrónico
Luego de la audiencia pública llevada a cabo para debatir la situación del transporte público de pasajeros, que contó con la presencia del viceministro del Transporte, Agustín Encina, así como de representantes de las empresas y trabajadores del sector; el titular de la Comisión de Obras, Servicios Públicos y Comunicaciones, diputado Dany Durand (ANR-Capital), indicó que la utilización del billetaje electrónico es el primer paso para la modernización del servicio.
"No podemos seguir guiándonos por anotaciones en un papel, para saber la cantidad de pasajeros, el gasto diario o el costo de mantenimiento. Si usamos billetes electrónicos, sabremos la viabilidad de modernizaciones en el transporte, como por ejemplo, la implementación de buses climatizados", subrayó el parlamentario.
Señaló que se debe apuntar, en forma razonable, a la modernización del transporte, manteniendo el equilibrio; es decir, la calidad de transporte a un bajo costo.
Agregó que no se puede obligar a un empresario a invertir en algo que no le generará ganancias, pero, sin embargo, urge un mejor servicio para los ciudadanos en general.
En cuanto al subsidio del gobierno para los empresarios del transporte, explicó que "primeramente, tenemos que analizar hasta dónde el gobierno puede subsidiar, si lo hará. Sabemos que en Argentina hay subsidio, así como en Brasil, Chile, Francia; esto permite que el ciudadano acaudalado, y el de escasos recursos, reciban el mismo servicio. Quiere decir que funciona".
Límite de años de antigüedad
En cuanto al anteproyecto de Ley "Que limita años al transporte público", los sectores involucrados solicitaron que el documento no prospere y que sigan apuntado al fortalecimiento de la Dinatran como ente regulador del transporte.
"En la comisión, seguramente, habrá un consenso para que esto no prospere y, asimismo, instar con una nota a la Dinatran, a adecuar el tiempo de uso de los ómnibus, a lo que corresponde", puntualizó el diputado Durand.