Airat Shafigullin: republican system of social support of population is constantly improving
27 March 2012, Tuesday
Social protection agencies render more than 70 kinds of state services to 1 mln 340 thousand citizens every month in the Republic of Tatarstan. Total volume of funds allocated for different social benefits makes 11 bln roubles.
Such a data was cited by RT Minister of labor, employment and social protection Airat Shafigullin at a briefing in the RT Government House.
The video conference briefing with participation of all municipal regions was dedicated to new measures of social support of RT citizens.
The republican system of social support of population is constantly improving, Airat Shafigullin marked. To the point, a set of normative legal acts of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan stipulating extra measures of social support of certain categories of citizens came into force in 2012.
In particular, the federal law № 306 ФЗ dated as of 7.11. 2011 “About money allowances of military personnel and assignment of certain subsidies” in terms of assignment of monthly payments to compensate harm to health, a serviceman or a citizen called up for military training who becomes disabled owing to military injury.
Head of RT Ministry of labor, employment and social protection told about measures being implemented in republic to simplify the process of collecting references for disabled people.
Thus, exchange of information (data bases) among social protection agencies and organizations of medical-social assessment has been arranged. He reminded as well that 300 thousand disabled people now receive social benefits in Tatarstan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva told that names of 353 Heroes of the Soviet Union from Tatarstan “ are immortalized in street names, on memorials, in monuments and squares and, of course, in our memory”. “The Victory Day is the day of memory, mourning and joy. It is the event which today should be clearly understandable to all young people and younger generation of Tatarstan,” she said.
On 24 April, upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Defense Minister of China Dong Jun was welcomed by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, representatives of the General Consulate of China in Kazan and other officials
On 24 April in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin held a joint meeting the Council for Enforcement of Legislation of Languages of Tatarstan and the organizational committee for celebrations of the 140th birthday of Gabdulla Tukay which summarized results of work of the regional law enforcement on official languages of the republic and considered progress of the implementation of the plan of main events for preparation and celebration of the 140th birthday of Gabdulla Tukay .