36 people were fired from the National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation
36 people were fired from the Cultural Heritage Preservation Agency. According to the National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation, the reorganization of the agency, which began on November 25, 2021, has been completed. A new staff arrangement was launched on January 15 of this year. Instead of 17 divisions, 11 divisions continue to operate in the agency and the number of employees has been reduced from 381 to 345.
"The structural changes implemented as a result of the reorganization were aimed at achieving efficient and timely implementation of the functions assigned to the agency, as well as overcoming the serious challenges facing the agency.
As a result of the reorganization, such structural units were merged which had similar / related functions to each other. In order to get the optimal structure of the agency, there were also reductions in positions that were no longer an inevitable necessity. As a result, instead of 17 divisions, 11 divisions continue to operate in the agency and the number of employees in the agency has been reduced from 381 to 345.
17 positions of masters we added to the list of staff of the agency (stonemason, house building carpenter, bricklayer, roofing master, blacksmith-locksmith and wood-turner), which did not exist before. It should be noted that the idea of creating a register of masters and employing them in the agency belongs to the Minister of Culture, Tea Tsulukiani, which was necessitated by the problems in the preservation of cultural heritage in the country. In particular, as a study by the Ministry of Culture has shown, in many cases, problems with cultural heritage sites are caused by a shortage of qualified staff or a lack of professionalism on the part of existing staff.
In addition, the intangible cultural heritage division and the laboratory (division) for the fixation of monuments and conservation-restoration of cultural property were established as separate structural units, as the National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation did not have a service carrying out photo / video fixation of cultural heritage sites, technical research and diagnosis of artefacts using various research methods, etc.
In order to monitor cultural heritage sites across the country, the agency has set up mobile teams of inspectors to examine the condition of cultural heritage sites by region and ensure further response," the agency said in a statement.
