Podgorica: Whoever does not die by 2015 will not have a place to be buried

In less than three years, the burial of the deceased could become a huge problem, even if 266 more graves are built at the Čepurci cemetery.

The Director of the Public Enterprise "Pogrebne usluge" Slobodan Stanović announced yesterday that the problem can only be solved in the long term by building a new cemetery, because there is no more room in the existing one.

Stanović announced that by building a new city cemetery between Dajbabska gora and KAP, it would be possible to solve the problem of lack of burial places.

He pointed out that in that case they would abandon the construction of the cemetery on Ćemovsko polje and the crematorium, which was previously announced by the mayor Miomir Mugoša.

Stanović said that currently only 35 graves are free, 17 in the cemetery in Zagoric and 18 in Čepurci.

He said that they would have to buy private land if they decide to build a cemetery in Dajbabe.

Given that an average of 13 people are buried in Podgorica per month, it is clear that it could happen that there will be no free space in the cemeteries in less than three months.

The tender for the expansion of Čepurak, which envisages the construction of 266 graves, has been completed, but Stanović warns that this is enough for only a few years.

There are 7.307 graves in Čepurci, and 3.256 graves in the cemetery in Zagorič.

Stanović said that there is no possibility to expand the cemetery in Zagorič due to the proximity of the settlement.

They will build 266 more tombs in Čepurci

He said that the work on Čepurci will start in a few days, after Vesko Radović, the owner of an apartment in a stone house, finally gets the promised apartment in exchange.

Radović repeatedly prevented the start of work...

"Negotiations are underway for 1.500 square meters of land owned by Kapisazović, Bibezić and their descendants, next to the wire fence on the south side of the cemetery. There is still so much land in the capital city. By joining the two plots, we would get a new 3.000 square meters and the possibility to build 270 graves. The monthly demand for graves is about 13 graves, and if this trend continues, and in the meantime we do not provide land through expropriation, there will be no room in two to three years," Stanović told "Vijesta".

Mugoša also promised a crematorium

Mugoša previously announced the construction of a crematorium as part of the new cemetery on Ćemovsko polje, which, he pointed out, would solve the problem of the lack of burial places in the next 100 years.

According to that plan, the cemetery would cover 45 hectares, Montenegro would get its first crematorium, and chapels for members of three religions would be built.

Stanović said yesterday that it is not possible to build a crematorium in the existing city cemeteries, because there are no necessary ecological and technical conditions for that.

Currently, only 35 tombs are free. Even if the announced 266 are built in Čepurci, there will be no room, because 13 people are buried on average per month

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