The Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, confirmed tonight that they are working on the deletion of the area that is within the structure of their own portfolio, within the scope of the Ministry of Public works. “It is a den of corruption,” he denounced.
Enohsa was created in 1995 during the government of Carlos Menem. According to the information on its website “it deals with plan, execute and manage works of water infrastructure and sanitary throughout the country, while controlling the quality of the drinking water and the sanitation service”
The organization’s objective is to “provide technical and financial assistance as well as promoting research and the technological development of water sector and sanitary”, in addition to disseminating “information about the importance of water suitable for consumption and sanitation, and training personnel in the field of water and sanitary infrastructure.”
According to what the minister said tonight in an interview with LN+, the State currently has an undersecretary of Water Services who would fulfill the same functions. “It was created in 1995 to do a work or two but then they found a way around it…”, he said. And he defined the entity as a “box” of politics.
“In the Undersecretariat of Water Services there were 184 works. In the Enohsa There were almost 1,500,” he continued. And he added: “The works are centralized there because it is much more difficult to audit it.
The Government will move forward with the closure and restructuring of organizations
The closure of Enohsa comes days after the Government confirmed last Thursday that it will move forward with new closures and restructurings in the State. As Ámbito announced, the Executive Branch will dissolve the Sudamericana Securities company, known as the former Ciccone, and will restructure the Mint.
The information was ratified by presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni in his conference at Casa Rosada. The spokesperson defined the institution as “a state printing press with severe inefficiencies that is responsible for printing banknotes, passports, car license plates and stamps.”
After confirming the news, Adorni stated that at the moment he has no further details of How many people will be laid off in the readjustment process of the mint, which the spokesperson defined as “the final nail in the coffin of inflation“.
Days ago, after confirming the dissolution of Argentine Trains Human Capital (DECAHF)he Government he announced that “At least four or five other state-owned companies will be closed” According to a high official source, Scope. At that time it was known that among the main ones was the Mint, in charge of printing legal tender bills and coins in Argentina.
Source: Ambito
