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The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 2nd that it has selected seven local governments as targets for the '2022 Pilot Project for Performance Improvement Support of Aged Infrastructure' to enable timely improvement of infrastructure managed by local governments.
The pilot project for performance improvement support of aged infrastructure has been supported since last year with a national budget of 2 billion KRW to address the aging of infrastructure and the imbalance in management levels between the central government and local governments, and to encourage active participation of local governments in infrastructure management policies. This year, the project plans to increase the effect by expanding the support amount per project up to 500 million KRW within a total national budget of 2.5 billion KRW.
After about a month of public recruitment starting in January, a total of 39 projects were submitted, and through evaluation by a selection committee composed of private experts, two metropolitan local governments and five basic local governments' projects were selected.
The selection committee evaluated the urgency of performance improvement for securing infrastructure safety and the maintenance efforts such as securing dedicated personnel by local governments.
Most of the selected facilities have a high degree of aging and are rated safety grade D (insufficient), where visible project effects can be achieved, and one facility rated safety grade C (average), expected to have a significant proactive management effect, was also included.
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Kang Cheol-yoon, Director of Facility Safety at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said, "Since the management of aged infrastructure is a task directly related to the lives and safety of the people, we will verify project outcomes such as upgrading the safety grades of facilities for proactive management, and cooperate with related ministries to expand support projects in the future."
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