Come-Down of Agricultural Settlements: What's Wrong with Them?

Things are good on paper. In the reality, it a mess.

Halina Yarashevich, resident of Kalodzishchy, can reach her home only wearing rubber boots. It's a challenge for her to go shopping, she has to walk on the road with puddles of water and dirt. The locals have been waiting for the crossing of streets Okolnaya and Podgornaya to be asphalted for 20 years.

Every spring the Yarashevichs used to repair the road. No they have no health to do it. Halina is a disabled person of group II. He husband had an apoplectic attack. He is a disabled person of group I and he stays in bed.

"It was possible to approach the gate to transfer my husband to a polyclinic or to dentist. Now a car can't do it," Halina tells her story to Belsat TV channel.

Ambulance can't drive up to the house either. Both the street and garage, and the basement in the house of Yarashevich are flooded because of absence of water discharge outlet.

Things are good on paper. In the reality, it's a complete mess.

Electricity, gas, water, transport connection and communication with the city and, of course, asphalted roads are the things every agricultural settlement requires. In practice, many people complain about the quality of roads:

"We have to wear rubber boots."

"We can't stand this dirt everywhere. Orekhovaya Street locates on a high hill. As soon as the hill is covered with ice, we can't go up it".

"My daughter-in-law has two small children and it's achallenge for her to go up the street with a baby stroller. Cars stick in the mud. Is this a norm? When will everything be put in order?

Halina Yarashevich repeatedly asked the local village committee about it. However, the date of the road repair is still not known. They say, there is no money in the budget to repair the road on Okolnaya Street.