(KZN.RU,
February 26, Ksenia Shvetsova). Since 2012, 137 schools older than 1981 have been
repaired in Kazan, and 34 kindergartens since the start of the kindergarten
overhaul program. This year, the overhaul will take place in 16 kindergartens
over 30 years old. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, told about the plans at
the meeting of the XXXII session of the Kazan City Duma in the City Hall.
Almost 5
billion rubles were allocated from the state budget for the repair of
educational institutions in the capital of Tatarstan.
In total,
186 kindergartens older than 1983 were in need of repair in Kazan. “Thank you
very much for including additional types of work in the overhaul program:
building fire exits, updating food-processing units, repairing internal
driveways and fences”, the Mayor of Kazan thanked Rustam Minnikhanov, the
President of the RT.
The repair
program has been prepared for 16 preschool institutions and one school for
2019. Taking into account the next 5 years (until 2024), the overhaul will be
necessary for 23 schools, 201 kindergartens, which will be 30 years old by that
time.
The
construction of new educational institutions continues along with the overhaul
in the city. Thus, 3 schools were commissioned last year, and today 2 more are
under construction, said I. Metshin. He added that 3 new kindergartens were
also built in Kazan in 2018.
“Despite
the good pace of construction of educational facilities, this is still not
enough. The number of first-graders over 10 years has increased almost 2 times.
We expect almost 19 thousand first-graders in 2019”, noted the Mayor. He added
that today almost 40% of schools work in two shifts, more than 18 thousand
children study in this mode.
In
addition, almost 53 thousand children stand in a queue at kindergartens, most
of them are children from 1 to 3 years. Thanks to the initiative and support of
the President of the RT, the construction of 11 kindergartens has begun and the
construction of another 20 ones is planned.
“We have a
large program for the construction of kindergartens in the republic. The
federal part in these funds is less than 30%. We direct large funds from the
budget of the republic. In the near future, we will solve these problems and
build a large number of facilities by 2021”, said Rustam Minnikhanov, the
President of the RT.