MINISTERS GIVE REPORTS AT TRAINING-CONSULTATION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag addressed a national training-consultation titled "Direct democracy and budget management with civil participation" which kicked off Monday in the State House. Initiated by the President, the event has been co-organized by the Presidential Office, the Parliamentary Office and the Cabinet Secretariat of Government for governors of aimags and soums, and the city's districts and khoroos (the smallest administrative unit in Ulaanbaatar), Mayor of Ulaanbaatar city, heads of Citizens' Representative Khurals. Following the Premier, some members of the cabinet gave reports to the local authorities. The Minister of Road and Transportation A.Gansukh said, for example, that two thous. 947 km paved roads have been run by 2012, thanks to which nine aimags have got roads to the city. "In the last four years, one thous.670 km paved roads have been constructed, for which 724 billion togrogs were spent. In addition, the cabinet for reforms intends to run such roads to centers of the remaining 12 aimags, and the 2013-2016 programme has been drawn up in order to do this construction," he said. A preparation has already launched to construct the roads to six aimags, he added. A.Gansukh spoke about works in the civil aviation and railway sectors as well, noting that the Mongolian Civil Aviation Company (MIAT) has got the status of national air transporter. The Minister of Industry and Agriculture Kh.Battulga said his Ministry is working towards 83 goals in the industrial and agricultural fields. A great importance is attached to producing copper, coal and iron ores at the heavy industrial sector, and to establishing a metallurgical complex, equipped with the latest technologies, on a base of the "Sainshand" industrial park and iron ore deposits of Darkhan and Selenge regions, Kh.Battulga said, and introduced to the gathered works to be realized in the light and food industries. For the fisrt time the localities have been given a right to freely spend their budgets, in particular the money earned as a payment for mineral resource exploitation, S.Oyun, the Minister of Environment and Green Development, said. On the final day of the measure, presentations will be made by Ch.Saikhanbileg, a head of the Cabinet Secretariat of Government, and by advisors to the PM with themes "Methods of reforms" and "Basic principles of reforms, responsibilities of local authorities". B.Khuder