(KZN.RU, November 29, Elena Chembaeva). Federal Center responds to problems of the regions very fast and this is very encouraging, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan said today on "Business Monday".
The Mayor recalled that on November 25 in Moscow the meeting of the President of the Supreme Council of the "Edinaya Rossiya" Party, Boris Gryzlov, the Chairman of Russian State Duma with the mayors of Russian cities. It was attended by Ilsur Metshin the Mayor of Kazan. The theme of the meeting was to discuss the implementation of the "New Roads for the cities of United Russia” party paroject.
"The Federal center responds very fast and it is very encouraging. We have met with Dmitry Medvedev, the President of RF and I reported on the Housing and Public Works. We talked about things that excites people today. These things are the conditions of housing stock but as soon as we started to bring housing to standard condition, the question about quarters and yards arose. In some yards there was no repair during 40 years, there was no rubbles on the roads. The Supreme Council of the “Edinaya Rossiya” Party took the decision, and funds on repair of roads, quarters and yards registered in separate line in the federal budget. We will wait for the final adoption of the budget. 877 million rubles is provided for Kazan. This is a serious figure, and municipalities are obliged to use 2 / 3 of money for the yard repairs”, Ilsur Metshin said.
The Mayor has instructed the heads of the districts to prepare all necessary documentation.
It is worth recalling that the draft of the "Edinaya Rossiya" Party provides the capital cities of Russian entities with significant funds to repair, reconstruct, and develop the urban road networks. Funding for the project has increased by more than 2 times: this year 16 billion rubles has been allocated, and it is planned to allocate 34 billion rubles in 2011.
This issue was introduced by the State Duma of the Russian Federation under the adoption of the "On federal budget for 2011 and for the planning period 2012-2013” Federal Law. On November 24 the State Duma adopted the budget in the third, final reading.