“Do not entrust ecology to a politician”
Should an earthquake strike Yerevan, which houses 42 percent of the country's population, it will take at least 300.000 lives and destroy 80 percent of the buildings, says Doctor of Technical Sciences Michael Melkumyan.
The specialist says the sector is highly corrupted and left without control.
"Constructors are brought to the capital from villages but they are not good specialists. I can count on my fingers the buildings erected by construction companies," said Mr Melkumyan.
The specialist, who is deeply concerned about the future of schools, has opened the organization "Let us save Yerevan schools from earthquakes."
"The schools built during the Soviet period are in a deplorable condition. I came to the concussion that seismic and environmental issues should not be entrusted to political figures. They can only re-build them..."
The organization has already raise 5 million drams. "I have become a global beggar," Mr Melkumyan said jokingly.
