Gjilan frees citizens living in municipal dwellings from rent

The Gjilan municipality releases all owners who use public spaces, teras and other locations in 2020. Released from the rent for six months, effectively from March 13th, all families living in municipal facilities and dwellings. Of course, in this context we are continuing to provide food and hygienic packages for all families in need”, Haziri has declared at the news conference.

Meanwhile, as a concern, Haziri has presented the recent lighting of forest fires, asking the State Prosecution to continue investigations into whitewashing.

“We have the doubts based, that arson is overcoordinated among people who have misused and continue to abuse public property as if it were damage to forests, mountains, pastures, and countries that are our public wealth. Zero tolerance with abusers of whom we have doubts based on public wealth. The Agriculture Directorate, which manages with forest guards, is tasked with strict implementation of the task of preventing illegal cuts, lighting fires and public property abuse”, the mayor has said of this area.

Even in the field of agriculture, Gjilan's head, in addressing the media, has said that in co-operation with Kosovo forest guards and the Kosovo Forest Agency, the possibility of subventing corn seed for spring sowing for all agricultural families will be created.

The seed sowing will be organised by the Directorate of Agriculture, in an optimum term for planting and with special permission farmers will be allowed to work their land for planting, but no more than two people can stay on agricultural land. The calendar, schedule, and distribution will be determined by the corresponding resort, with which state police” will be notified, he underlined.

He has announced that the decision must be respected in a precise way, where the Public Services Directorate, along with municipal companies, clean public property, roads, sidewalks, plant trees, remove patrols, ads and objects at the time of pandemic from public spaces.

“From last week, every commercial activity has been banned and we demand that, in addition to purity, disinfectation and maintenance of green spaces, continue to evacuate small and wild deposits, as well as strict custody in regional waste depots. This is intended that no source of infection be allowed”, the first position of this municipality.

Meanwhile, Haziri has said that local producers are obliged, together with the Directorate for Economic Development and in touch with the Kosovo Government's list of decisions, to submit their demand through the Kosovo Tax Administration, in order to co-ordinate their working schedules in production.

The “they will not be affected, they will have the right to work and produce, but the permits of their workers should be regulated with specific decisions that the Gjilan municipality manages, maintains and informs the central authorities of the Republic of Kosovo concerning these” activities, it has outlined among other things.