Education: No school district in Beja 80 recover. cost 22,4 million.
The Government forgot the Beja district, Alentejo and the South, at the 80 schools that will receive works of rehabilitation and modernization, no value 22,4 million. Most establishments are the North.
The state will spend 22,4 million, em oitenta escolas do 2º e 3º ciclo do Ensino Básico e Secundário que vão receber obras de requalificação e modernização. Most of the money appears to EU funds of Portugal 2020, but the municipalities is also applied its contribution.
From the list of eighty establishments published on Friday in Gazette, not in any of 14 municipalities in the district of Beja. But the situation is even more scandalous when there is none of 43 municipalities of Beja district, Évora (14) and Portalegre (15). But the Algarve, He did not see any of his 16 municipalities contemplated.
If we evaluate the situation through the NUTS III, joining the Santarém district, with 21 municipalities, only the city of Junction had a school contemplated. Setúbal, the municipality has, of 13 that make up the district, further south in Portugal, Almada, a school “for works”.
The five district further south of the country, a total of 93 counties, só tem dois englobados na listagem de escolas a requalificação e modernização.
Gondomar and Amadora (4 schools), Maia and Gaia (three) and Montalegre and Oliveira de Azeméis (two), are the municipalities with more schools for intervention.
It is recalled that last day 2 April, Oporto Metropolitan Council (Cmp) He asked the intervention of the Government in the way EU funds were being distributed in the North.
“The municipalities were faced with a final decision. There was no negotiation”, He denounced the vice president of Cmp, Joaquim Couto, criticizing the lack of flexibility between the three strands of PEDU. “It's an absurd. The regulations in the Northern Region are different from the center or Alentejo and they are more restrictive than the national regulation”, he added.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
