New management in Sarmanovo region

On November 19, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov took part in a session of Sarmanovo Region Council where Farid Khusnullin, the ex-head of Sarmanovo region's agriculture and food department, was elected the acting head of the regional Executive Committee.

Before the session the Head of Tatarstan Government had opened a new sports and fitness centre “Dulkyn” in Sarmanovo. The centre built in two years at the total cost of 108 million roubles houses a 25-meter long and 10-meter long swimming pools, fitness room, children’s playing room, six men’s and women’s locker-rooms.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Tatarstan Prime Minister expressed his gratitude to Nafis Zakirov for the initiative to build the swimming pool. According to him, thanks to the Head, a lot of new facilities were opened in Sarmanovo and in the region in general. Ildar Khalikov also thanked the builders. "Building such facilities is not easy, but they coped with it," he said.

He handed in a number of awards to the builders, cut a symbolic red ribbon, and then looked around the new sports centre.

At the session of Sarmanovo Region Council the deputies addressed leaving of the region’s head position by Nafis Zakirov who had taken the post for 15 years. The council accepted the head’s resignation from the executive committee’s head position as well; then Ildar Khalikov addressed the participants.

“This is a really important decision for each municipal formation," the Prime Minister said.

He reported that the decision about the resignation was a personal decision of Nafis Zakirov who will hold a new position at Tatneft Oil Ccompany.

The deputies voted for Farid Khusnullin to be the acting head of Sarmanovo region's Executive Committee and announced a vacancy for this position.