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BELGRADE - Since the start of the work on the reconstruction of the country from June 14 to October 18, traffic has been resumed on the key sections of the road and rail infrastructure in Yugoslavia. Numerous housing facilities have been turned over to the citizens who lost their homes during the aggression on Yugoslavia. Rebuilt and repaired have been a number of bridges and roads, thus reviving major routes through this country and establishing the shortest links between northern Europe and the East and southeast.
Under the guidance of the Directorate for the Reconstruction of the Country of the Republic of Serbia opened have been 120 construction sites, of which 41 road and seven rail infrastructure facilities, as well as 72 construction sites for housing and other facilities.
The achievements of the builders are imposing - so far completed has been work on 26 construction sites, with 38 facilities put into operation.
All projects for the reconstruction of destroyed or damaged facilities are financed out of realistic and stable sources.
Built and opened have been 12 road bridges, three rail and four auxilliary ones and 14 individual houses. Work has been completed on a section of a highway, one building each for the university, a hospital, sports hall and a hotel.
The builders are continuing work on apartment houses in order to enable people who have been left without their homes to move into new ones before the winter. The biggest construction sites of apartments and houses are in Aleksinac, Valjevo, Nis and Novi Sad.
The knowhow of the construction workers, designers, overseers and, especially the 24-hour engagement of the Directorate for the Reconstruction of the Country, have resulted in the successful completion of the first stage of the reconstruction with traffic infrastructure and housing facilities as the priorities.
Owing to the great efforts of the builders, rejoined have been the banks of rivers, separated by the aggressors. The bridge over the Danube near Beska, crucial for the major traffic route E-75, has been repaired in less than 40 days.
The totally destroyed stone bridge over the Ibar River near Brvenik, on the Kraljevo-Raska highway, has been fully reconstructed, and on the same section of the highway in Biljanovac, rebuilt has been the old steel bridge, thus returning to normal the traffic leading towards Kosovo-Metohija, Montenegro and Macedonia.
A rebuilt minor bridge over the Ibar near Brvanik has enabled the local inhabitants to communicate with the surrounding towns and villages.
On September 15, the citizens of Novi Sad were presented with a unique bridge on barges on the Danube which enabled links between the Serm and Backa regions of the multinational Vojvodina province.
The bridge in Vranjski Priboj, important for the Pcinj area region, was opened ten days ahead of schedule.
On the Belgrade - Nis highway, in the direction of Leskovac, on October 11 opened were five bridges - over the Jasenica River, the overpass near Veliko Orasje, the bridge over Velika Morava near Mijatovac, the overpass near Trupalo and the bridge in Popovac near the Trupalske Forests, thus returning traffic to its previous routes.
The old stone bridge in Nis was reopened on Liberation Day. On October 14, the 55th anniversary of the victory over fascism, the citizens of Krusevac received a new bridge over the Zapadna Morava River, near the village of Jasika, thus re-establishing links of all parts of the Krusevac and Rasin districts with Sumadija. In Vrbas, opened was a new bridge over the Backi Canal.
Reconstructed were rail bridges in Vatin, Grdelica and Podina, near Zitoradja.
The Directorate for the Reconstruction of the Country said that underway is work on a total of 25 road and three rail infrastructure facilities, and in 66 highrise facilities, including 619 apartment units in 34 construction sites, five education and three health institutions, four heating plants, two farms and 18 other public facilities.