In thousands, 150-200 grams are produced underweight. The justification: “The price of the molds has gone up” Bread weight TIRANA - At yesterday’s meeting of the Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Minister of Labour, the decision was approved to increase social pensions or pensions received by those with supplementary pensions. These two categories of pensioners will receive an increase of 6 thousand lek per year. The increase will be paid once every 6 months, in installments of 3 thousand lek. The decision enters into force from 1 January of this year. At this meeting the government decided that, starting from 15 February 1995, private entities, contract manufacturers or bread producers must use only two bread weights, 500 grams and 1 kilogram. Bread of other types will not be produced. In addition, in order to protect consumers, bakers will be obliged to indicate the ingredients of the bread on every loaf they produce. “This is not a new initiative, but an implementation of the laws in force,” said to “Gazeta Shqiptare” the head of the trade sector at the Ministry of Trade, Arqile Vani. But this measure would be complemented by other measures aimed precisely at protecting consumers. Thus traders must clearly display the price of the goods they sell, based on a standard list. Likewise, on every commercial item the appropriate label must be placed, except for those goods for which this is not possible. TIRANA - According to an announcement from the General Directorate of RTSH, starting from 7 March the connection with the EUTELSAT satellite center will be restored. This will make possible the linking of transmissions with foreign channels, but Albanian viewers will have the opportunity to continue watching one of the Albanian and foreign programs. According to this announcement, today the relevant connection tests will be carried out from 15.00 to 20.00. The interruption of the connection will last 8 hours in total. This issue was scheduled for this period in order to minimize viewers’ inconvenience. The program directorate has made several changes during this period in order to fully realize the program broadcast on the national waves. Thus many well-known programs will be broadcast on weekends such as “Mbresa”, “Gruaja shqiptare”, “Rrufeja”, “Republika”, “Kënga magjike” etc. All these programs had previously been scheduled to be shown only on satellite waves, but now they will be broadcast on the national waves. KORÇË - Construction work on an 8-year school, funded by Unicef, which will be built in the mountainous village of Ostrovica, started two months later. The only contributors to the construction of the school, about 8 km from the center of the relevant commune, are foreign specialists. The villagers ask that this school be built as soon as possible because otherwise the children will have to continue their studies in the neighboring village, in a school built with so few means that even the smallest rainfall can no longer be withstood. At least that is what the villagers told the foreign specialists. More than 200 pupils attend school in the village. Children born out of wedlock: parents do not want them KORÇË - In recent years the number of cases of children born outside marriage has been increasing. Only during 23 June of last year, 28 babies with unknown parents were born at the maternity hospital of Korçë. This phenomenon is more widespread among people up to the age of 30. The head nurse of several wards told “Gazeta Shqiptare” that many mothers leave at the maternity hospital the children they have given birth to in such relationships, saying that they cannot raise them. “Many cases of abandonment in villages and cities are reported especially by young girls,” she said. According to data from the city’s wards, the number of cases rises with the arrival of the summer season. Maternity specialists say that this phenomenon is linked to seasonal migration and the lack of family responsibility.