They will be enabled in Cerro de las Cuentas and Centurión
The agreement between the Uruguayan Post Office and the Departmental Administration will make it possible for two other Municipalities of Cerro Largo to have Nearby Centers.
It is planned that on Wednesday, December 18, with the presence of national and departmental authorities, those of Cerro de las Cuentas and Centurión will be formally inaugurated.
In this way, Cerro Largo will become the 11th center of these characteristics to be installed since the first experience back in 2016.
Proximity Centers reduce the inequality between large cities and small towns by bringing services to the people. In them you can not only pay bills from public organizations but also withdraw small sums of money that boost local commerce.
“On Wednesday authorities from the Post Office visited us to go to Cerro de las Cuentas and Centurión where we would be inaugurating on December 18, something that we coordinated with the Board of Directors of the organization and with the Mayor’s agenda, of two new Proximity Centers” confirmed Virginia Costa to THE DIARY PROFESSIONAL.
“Cerro Largo is a pioneer in terms of Nearby Centers. In 2016, the first one was inaugurated in Arévalo and then continued in several other locations. With these two we would be reaching number 11” revealed the Coordinator of Municipalities of the Departmental Administration of Cerro Largo.
“We must understand and understand that when we defend and talk about decentralization, having these Centers with the services that add to each community is a real source of pride for the department” he stated.
THE DEPARTMENT WITH THE MOST CENTERS IN THE COUNTRY
“If we are not the one with the most centers, we are very close. They have even called us from other departments to ask us about the operation. With Ana Laura del Correo and Eduardo Mungay we have done a great job. In each locality, the neighbor can pay the bills for public services such as OSE, UTE and ANTEL, MEVIR fees, vehicle licenses.” he detailed.
“Another thing that we have achieved at the request of the Mayor himself is to be able to withdraw small sums of money” Costa stressed. “Inhabitants of different locations can make withdrawals of up to $7,000 twice” he remembered. “Now negotiations are being made with the Banco República because the gyroplane generates a cost, which is why it is being analyzed with the Post Office to avoid that” advertisement.
“This was implemented for those places where there are no ATMs. People go to the Local Centers, withdraw that money that will circulate in the same town, generating a small development in the entrepreneur and the local merchant. “All of that is very good.” the official remarked.
NEXT YEAR, FOR 3 OTHER LOCATIONS
“We are already planning within the Municipalities, included in Plan 2025, to be able to achieve the same in Bañado de Medina, Quebracho and La Micaela” Virginia Costa advanced.
“Last year when others were inaugurated, La Micaela asked us and we think it would be a very interesting place to be able to have a service of that type” considered. “If people chose that place to live, we have to, from our role as rulers, provide them with all the services so that they are happy” said the Coordinator of Municipalities of the Departmental Administration of Cerro Lar
