Social inclusion agency annual running costs estimated at 400 million crowns

Human Rights and Minorities Minister Michael Kocáb has said the annual running costs of a Czech government agency for social inclusion should reach 400 million crowns. Speaking on Czech Television on Sunday, Mr Kocáb said some 280 million crowns of that amount would be allotted to projects. The agency, which is to help the regional authorities to integrate excluded, mainly Romany, communities into the majority society, should employ around 120 people, Mr Kocáb said. The agency, established last year by the previous coalition government, is planned to launch nationwide operation in 2011.