A kindergarten building is being demolished in the center of Bishkek. Chairman of Erkin El political party Mavlyan Askarbekov told to 24.kg news agency.
According to him, the preschool organization is located in the yard of houses in the square of Suyumbaev, Toktogul, Moskovskaya and Ibraimov streets.
«The kindergarten was built in Soviet times, but then it housed various organizations, sewing workshops. It has been abandoned for a long time. In 1992, a law was adopted that when privatizing social facilities, they must work for their functional purpose. That is, a kindergarten should work as a kindergarten, a theater — as a theater, and so on. This is the law,» he said.
Mavlyan Askarbekov added that the city needs preschool organizations. Over the past 20 years, compact development has been taking place in the capital. «Not dozens, but hundreds of new high-rise buildings were built in this area. And the only kindergarten, which is located in a safe place, in the yard, is now being destroyed,» he said.
According to him, the Bishkek City Hall informed him that the object was on the balance sheet of the State Property Management Fund.
Mavlyan Askarbekov addressed the head of the Cabinet of Ministers, Akylbek Japarov. «In February, he publicly announced that within 100 days he would return all kindergartens that were privatized and used for other purposes to children. How many months have passed since then? Since the head of the Cabinet speaks publicly about their return, he had to do something,» Mavlyan Askarbekov added.
