YEREVAN, APRIL 21, ARMENPRESS. In March of this year, a historical record of jobs was registered in Armenia: 706 thousand, ARMENPRESS reports, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced in his final speech during the discussion of the report on the progress and results of the 2022 implementation of the Armenian Government’s Action Plan 2021-2026 in the National Assembly.

He noticed that in general, the tendency of the opposition partners was to show that the report presented by the Government is a document in which the achievements highlighted in it are not felt by the citizens of Armenia. However, the Prime Minister did not agree with that assessment. "On the contrary, this is the case that any of the points we mentioned cannot fail to be felt by the Armenian citizens. With 2,500 km of roads built, overhauled and renovated in the last 5 years, a citizen cannot fail to travel and notice. The citizens of the Republic of Armenia cannot fail to notice the additional health services they received in the health institutions," said Pashinyan, adding that these are not numbers, but are people who actually received these services at the expense of the budget.

He also emphasized that a certified teacher cannot fail to notice that his salary has doubled. "And we all cannot fail to notice that there is a teacher in Armenia who receives a salary of 400-450 thousand drams. 29,000 Armenian citizens cannot fail to notice that they received 35 billion AMD from the government in 2022 to buy apartments. Scientists cannot fail to notice that their salary has increased by 66-166 percent," Pashinyan noted.

He also noted that more than 700,000 workers cannot fail to notice that their average salary in 2022, compared to 2021, has increased by 31,528 AMD.

Referring to the statement of the opposition that thousands of citizens are sleeping hungry, Pashinyan said that such a thing can and does exist. "But we say there are thousands of vacancies in the labor market. We have a new historical record: 706 thousand jobs, the previous one was 704 thousand. In March of this year, compared to March of last year, we have 51 thousand more salaries. These are the people who, perhaps, don't sleep hungry anymore because they work and get paid," said Pashinyan.

In addition, the gross salary fund has doubled compared to March 2019, that is, citizens working in Armenia received twice as much salary in March this year than in 2019.