From the Ñuble region, President Gabriel Boric presented the Reconstruction Plan for the areas that were affected by the forest fires that broke out during the month of February in the south-central area of the country.
Specifically, the initiative contemplates a total of $229 million to finance 36 measures, which will be focused on five pillars: habitability; psychosocial support; productive reactivation; enabling infrastructure and territory and sustainability.
In this sense, the President assured that the emergency housing “will be there before winter arrives. This is a commitment of our Government that I reaffirm from Ninhue, the housing will be there during the month of May.”
“The emergency cannot become normal because many times it happens that the State has a first reaction and then when another emergency occurs, those sides go away, and the provisional remains as permanent.”
In this sense, the Government highlighted that the proposals will have “a decentralizing seal, assigning a relevant role to regional and local governments in their design and execution. The territories affected by the fires will be declared Development Zones and will be the subject of a Plan of Investments, led by the respective regional governments”.
Likewise, the Executive pointed out that they seek to promote “collaboration and complementarity between the different actors and sectors: the private sector, civil society, academia and international cooperation are welcome to participate in this new stage of the reconstruction process.”
