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Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia

Georgian government agency

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4294647 ↗
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The Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს რეგიონული განვითარებისა და ინფრასტრუქტურის სამინისტრო, sakartvelos regionuli ganvitarebisa da inprastrukturis saministro) is a governmental agency within the Cabinet of Georgia in charge of regional and infrastructure development, regulation of activities in sector of Georgia. The ministry is currently headed by Irakli Karseladze.

History

The ministry was established on the basis of previous government agency called State Ministry in Regional Management Issues on February 2, 2009 according to the Article 81 (2) of Georgian Constitution and law on the Structure, Powers and Order of Activity of the Government of Georgia. A separate state agency United Transport Administration and Department of Roads was abolished and its scope of activities transferred to the newly established ministry. The ministry is funded by the state budget. Davit Tkeshelashvili was the first minister assigned to take the office.

Structure

The ministry oversees regional and infrastructure development throughout the country which includes modification and modernization of state road networks of international and domestic importance. It is also in charge of activities monitoring architectural and construction works in Georgia. The ministry issues proposals and drafts on modernization of Georgian infrastructure which is then reviewed by the Parliament of Georgia. The agency is made up of the Office of the Minister, Administrative Department, General Inspection Department, Department of Legal Support and Reforms, Department of Regional Development, Department of Public Relations, Mobilization and Military Drafting Coordination Office, Office of International Relations as well as its subdivisions (Automobile Roads Department of Georgia, Transport Administration and Main Architectural-Constructions Inspection.

Editorial summary

“Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia” enters the record as georgian government agency. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ministry, Regional and Development can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009-02-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ministry, Regional and Development.
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“Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ministry, Regional and Development provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4294647. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.