Eighty dwellings will be provided free to participants in the Chernobyl cleanup. These are part of an apartment building situated on Alba Iulia St in Chisinau. The Cabinet approved a bill to this effect on Tuesday, IPN reports.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection said the bill is aimed at providing dwellings to the citizens who took part in the Chernobyl cleanup and didn’t benefit so far from state assistance to buy or build a home, in accordance with the law.

The 80 apartments will be distributed by a commission consisting of representatives of a number of institutions and public authorities and of public associations.

According to the Ministry, the works to erect the building started in 2006 and cost about 67 million lei. The money was allocated gradually from the state budget.

The bill will be sent to Parliament for examination.

On April 26, 2023, it has been 37 years of the disastrous and deadly explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then a part of the Soviet Union. The disaster in 1986 is still considered the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster. Over 3,500 Moldovans were assigned to take part in the alleviation of the consequences of that disaster, being exposed to the risk of contamination and sacrificing their state of health this way.