At the start of his mandate at the head of the Provincial Deputation of Granada, François Rodriguez He indicated as a priority objective the fight against depopulation, which represents a challenge in a province where 73 of its 174 municipalities do not have a thousand inhabitants.
In the budgets of the provincial body for 2025, this intention materializes with a very precise and very interesting measure: families who register their newborn in a municipality at risk of disappearing will receive a check for a thousand euros.
“This is the result of active listening to municipal representatives,” underlined Francis Rodríguez during the presentation of the institution’s budgets for the year 2025, which amount to 418 million eurosthe highest figure in its history.
The baby check, he specified, will provide assistance “due to birth or adoption” to people residing in depopulated municipalities. “It’s a small amount but it’s a gesture for families who have to face the costs of a new birth.” The idea is “to get people to also give birth in their city”. and stay to have the family in“.
In these municipalities it is also planned to launch new services, an initiative adopted in collaboration with the Faculty of Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine of Granada and which aims to facilitate the task of older residents, in particular access and use medications.
More investments
The new accounts will be debated next week and, as the PP has an absolute majority, they will be approved without problem. They may come into force on January 1, 2025, something that has never happened in the Granada institution in the last decade.
They also imply an increase in the allocation for the tourism sector and include 9.5 million for investments and the maintenance of provincial roads, with projects including the feasibility study for the splitting of the road that connects the city of Ogijaresadjacent to the capital, with the Health Technology Park.
Likewise, the articulation, at the expense of the new budget, of a rescue and rescue unitwhich the president of the Provincial Council considers “fundamental” at a time marked by “the reality that has affected Spain and Granada in recent days”.
