Ildar Khalikov: “Experience of Elabuga in housing and communal sector should be used throughout republic”
4 March 2013, Monday
Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov participated in 23d session of the municipal Council in Elabuga. Results of region’s social and economic development for 2012 and tasks for 2013 were considered at the session.
Thus, the industrial production index made 115,6 per cent in 2012. According to amount of investments the region holds third place in republic. The unemployment problems are being solved. Results of work in agricultural sector are becoming better. In particular, meat and milk production has increased. Housing construction plan has been fulfilled for 101,3 per cent. 85 families of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, orphans and Chernobyl veterans have improved their living conditions. The program on providing large families with land plots is under implementation.
Head of Elabuga region Gennady Emelyanov considers housing and communal sector most urgent problem in the region.
Results of Special Economic Zone “Alabuga” guarantee successful development of the region. There are 6 resident enterprises functioning on its territory today.
Gennady Emelyanov criticized poor participation of agricultural producers in contests for receiving benefits under republican programs.
Ildar Khalikov noted achievements of Elabuga dwellers in health care, education, agriculture, and focused on problems to be solved in cooperation with republican Government.
On 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
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