Russian Prime Minister holds a working meeting with Governor of the Trans-Baikal Territory Ravil Geniatulin to sum up his trip to the Trans-Baikal Territory

Special attention was paid during the meeting to issue of dilapidated accommodation. Ravil Geniatulin asked Vladimir Putin to extend the federal programme on this issue to ensure the problem is resolved in full. In addition, Ravil Geniatulin said that the work on housing provision for Great Patriotic War veterans was going well across the Territory.
Transcript of the beginning of the meeting:
Vladimir Putin: Mr Geniatulin, as you know, I have traveled through most of the Trans Baikal Territory by car. I have seen the state that economy here is in and I have talked to people. There are a lot of problems.
Ravil Geniatulin: There are a lot of problems.
Vladimir Putin: How do you assess the state of the social sector and the economy? Where is the economy in terms of its emergence from the downturn? What are the problems?
Ravil Geniatulin: 2009 was a very difficult year, Mr Putin, in fact there were no losses, but no profits either. By this August we saw a surplus of 3.2%. So there is clearly a steady improvement in budget revenues. Though, of course there is still a deficit.
We are continuing the construction of ten large facilities in the healthcare sector alone (I have the photographs here and will show them to you). They include a large infectious diseases hospital with a capacity of 120 beds (which we will finish on September 1), the first large stage of psychiatric hospital, which has no equal anywhere this side of the Urals. And we are near to completion on the cardiology and burns centre. There are four facilities here. That's why our funding for the perinatal centre fell a little short. But I will rectify this situation, of course.
We are paying salaries, pensions and social benefits on time. There are no problems in this respect, and I hope this state of affairs will continue through to the end of the year.
We have experienced some problems connected with the housing and utilities sector, caused by the transfer of large volume of accommodation, social facilities (You may have seen some of them during the trip) both from the Defence Ministry and Russian Railways.
Of course, all this requires additional outlays. That's why there are some problems with maintaining the housing and utilities infrastructure for these facilities.
Nevertheless, last winter showed that these issues can be solved even in extreme temperatures.
To be continued...
источник новости: http://premier.gov.ru/eng/events/news/11967/