Ra Ministry of finance has responded to MP Hrant bagratyan’s offer of increasing the minimum salary from 32.5 thousand to 72 thousand AMD. The Ministry has noted that the Government plans to increase minimum salary still needs to do this in line with budgetary frames. Recall that Bagratyan had earlier suggested to increase the minimum salary up to 72 thousand AMD which would enable to minimize the difference between average and minimum salaries from 4 to 1.8 times and decrease shadow economy.