SOUTH CAUCASIAN RAILWAY GIVES FINANCIAL AID TO FAMILIES OF KILLED AND INJURED IN BRIDGE COLLAPSE AT SHORZHA-VARDENIS
YEREVAN, January 30. /ARKA/. The South Caucasian Railway cjsc provided
financial support to the families of the killed and the injured in
the bridge collapse at Shorzha-Vardenis railway section, the company's
press service reported.
The South Caucasian Railway is a socially oriented company and helps
its employees and their families on delightful and sad occasions,
according to the press service.
The accident occurred during the construction works in November last
year killed three employees of the company - Nerses Martorisoyan,
Gagik Avetisyan and Varuzhan Sargsyan. Another two railwaymen, Argam
Antonyan and Robert Hambartsumyan, were injured.
The company allocated over 7 million drams for organizing funeral
ceremonies. Each family received financial help worth 5 times the
minimum wage, says the report.
Under an instruction from the company's general director Victor Rebets,
the son of the killed Nerses Martirosyan who is a third-year student
at the Yerevan Engineering University transport department is employed
at Sevan section where his father worked. The company will also pay for
the education of Martirosyan the Younger under the corporate contract.
The South Caucasian Railway is paying the treatment costs for the
injured in the bridge collapse. A total of about 700,000drams was
provided to Argam Harutiunyan and Robert Hambartsumyan for surgeries.
The company's staff suggested deductions from their wages and a total
of 3,800,000drams were collected as a result.
All this has been done to create a high level of social responsibility
and to ensure stable performance, according to the report.
The South Caucasus Railway cjsc is a 100% subsidiary of Russian
Railways open joint stock company that is operating Armenian railways
under a 30-year concession contract signed in 2008. The contract can
be extended for another 10 years. -0-
From: Baghdasarian
YEREVAN, January 30. /ARKA/. The South Caucasian Railway cjsc provided
financial support to the families of the killed and the injured in
the bridge collapse at Shorzha-Vardenis railway section, the company's
press service reported.
The South Caucasian Railway is a socially oriented company and helps
its employees and their families on delightful and sad occasions,
according to the press service.
The accident occurred during the construction works in November last
year killed three employees of the company - Nerses Martorisoyan,
Gagik Avetisyan and Varuzhan Sargsyan. Another two railwaymen, Argam
Antonyan and Robert Hambartsumyan, were injured.
The company allocated over 7 million drams for organizing funeral
ceremonies. Each family received financial help worth 5 times the
minimum wage, says the report.
Under an instruction from the company's general director Victor Rebets,
the son of the killed Nerses Martirosyan who is a third-year student
at the Yerevan Engineering University transport department is employed
at Sevan section where his father worked. The company will also pay for
the education of Martirosyan the Younger under the corporate contract.
The South Caucasian Railway is paying the treatment costs for the
injured in the bridge collapse. A total of about 700,000drams was
provided to Argam Harutiunyan and Robert Hambartsumyan for surgeries.
The company's staff suggested deductions from their wages and a total
of 3,800,000drams were collected as a result.
All this has been done to create a high level of social responsibility
and to ensure stable performance, according to the report.
The South Caucasus Railway cjsc is a 100% subsidiary of Russian
Railways open joint stock company that is operating Armenian railways
under a 30-year concession contract signed in 2008. The contract can
be extended for another 10 years. -0-
From: Baghdasarian