For seven years, Stefan Osmajić has had an apartment in Podgorica's Siti quarter and has been listening to promises about the construction of an elementary school...
"There is still no progress, we are still hoping, I don't know what will become of all this, another couple of buildings have been built behind us," Osmajić told TV Vijesti.
In response to the statement that his older child is five years old and will not be able to go to that school, he says: "Well, it won't, we were hoping that the school would be finished when she was ready for school, but it won't be."
Asked where he will enroll the girl, he says that he will see if it will be "some school in Blok or 'Radojica Perović'".
The Ministry of Education says that a tender will be announced for the development of the main projects for the school and kindergarten...
"We are aware that this is probably the most critical point in Montenegro. Already in the second half of the year, the project should be finished and the tendering procedure for the selection of the contractor should be launched, which in some case could lead us to start the works at the end of this year, possibly at the beginning of next year," says Spasoje Ostojić from the Investment Service of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation.
The previous DPS governments and local administrations are responsible for this and similar neighborhoods, because at that time plans were adopted and settlements were built without the basic amenities for life, despite urban planning standards. Huge concrete dormitories, without enough parking, playgrounds and greenery...
The state bought a plot from part of the former factory "Radoje Dakić" for 3,3 million euros, and millions of investments are yet to follow. For a facility for more than a thousand and a half students, it is not yet known exactly how much it will cost...
"A tender with the cost price of the works at this moment and with the market before the start of the main project would probably be frivolous, but what we know is that this school will be the largest school in Montenegro, with an area of 7.200 square meters," says Ostojić.
Residents of this neighborhood are left to wonder why after so many years they don't have a single public facility, and buildings are still being built...
"It's a great shame, given this number of inhabitants and even this much space. This is already a huge neighborhood and it really deserves a school and a kindergarten and a health center, even a park if possible, because we've turned everything into concrete." Osmajić points out.
In the end, the interlocutor of TV Vijesti, who recently had a second child, is an optimist, so with a smile he says that he hopes that his younger daughter will definitely go to a new school.
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