2431 houses were renovated in Kazan for 10 years of the overhaul program

(KZN.RU, November 15, Anton Nozdrin). About 47% of the city's housing stock (2431 houses) in Kazan was repaired within 10 years of the overhaul program. In the framework of works, 2062 lifts have been replaced, 1293 roofs have been repaired, 5400 km of internal engineering networks have been replaced, and more than 1500 facades have been repaired. Iskander Giniyatullin, the deputy head of the Executive Committee and chairman of the Housing and Utilities Committee, reported this at the XXI session of the Kazan City Duma today. Due to the decision of the republic's leadership, the budget money is added to the money invested by the owners.

The subject of the development of housing and communal services and improving the quality of it in Kazan has become the main one at today's session.

I. Giniyatullin especially focused on the issue of training the personnel of the industry. He noted that about a thousand specialists annually improve their skills in the educational institutions of the city. Welders, fitters, engineering and technical personnel are among them.

Since last year, the Kazan Energy University has been training specialists in the field of “energy utilities” and “innovative technologies in the utilities' sector”. Currently, 120 students are trained in these specialties. Since 2013, the Kazan “College of Public Utilities and Construction” provides training for professionals in the field of housing and communal services, whose students are trained in management companies and contract organizations.

In order to popularize the profession of the employee of the housing and communal services, professional skills competitions are traditionally held in the city.

“Speaking about the training of personnel, we don’t forget about the training of the main person, the consumer of housing and communal services. Classes for heads of houses, members of the Councils MKD, and active citizens were organized for these purposes. In total, 2400 citizens received training at the centers”, noted I. Giniyatullin.

He said that the MUP “Technical Supervision Service” carries out the quality control of works. At the same time, the signature of the head on the house is mandatory in the act of acceptance of work after the completion of an overhaul.

I. Giniyatullin said that measures to ensure the availability of apartment buildings for the low-mobility population groups have also been included in the program since 2016.

In his report, I. Giniyatullin spoke about the issue of emergency housing. “The cost of restoring such buildings is comparable to the cost of building a new modern housing. As of 2009, 151 houses in Kazan were recognized as emergency ones, 2323 families lived in them”, he said.

The construction of street water pipes in the residential areas of the city continues in Kazan within the framework of the regional program “Clean Water”. In 2017, budget funds for the development of the infrastructure of horticultural partnerships were invested for the first time in the framework of the presidential program. 110.12 million rubles allocated to Kazan for these purposes.

Reporting on the waste management, the deputy head of the Executive Committee noted that the operation and construction of landfills are underway.

I. Giniyatullin reminded that since January 1, the issues of waste management have been transferred to the regional level. At the same time, the Executive Committee continues to develop the topic of a separate waste collection.

The chairman of the committee also said that in 2019, it is planned to start construction of a sewage sludge treatment plant with a shop for mechanical dehydration.

Alexey Frolov, the first deputy minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the RT, Evgeny Chekashov, the director of the MUP “Kazan Energy Service Center”, and Oleg Kalimov, the director of the OOO “MC Housing and communal services of Moskovsky District” continued the meeting.

Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, noted that a lot of work has been done. “The population expects even greater results from us. The more we do, the more expectations there are”, said the Mayor.

The head of the city drew attention to the fact that complaints from residents continue to appear, despite the improvement of the housing stock. Most of them concern the activities of management companies. The Mayor instructed the heads of districts’ administrations to analyze monthly the citizens' complaints and assess the work of the MC.