ONLINE MEETING HELD WITH LOCAL GOVERNORS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Dornod aimag’s Dashbalbar, Tov aimag’s Jargalant, Arkhangai aimag’s Erdenemandal and Khovd aimag’s Uyench soums have been selected as foremost soums of this year. A head of the Cabinet Secretariat for Government Ch.Saikhanbileg said it at a beginning of the weekly online meeting held Wednesday with local authorities. An infrastructure project is running successfully in Dornogobi’s Sainshand and Zamyn-Uud soums. Pipelines and heating system of these two soums will be renovated by this project, Saikhanbileg said, and added that this aimag recently has announced to become very first alcoholic beverage-free province in Mongolia. “Olzii khutgiin naran” LLC has founded a factory of asphalt and concrete in Orkhon province. In addition, a concrete factory has been established in Ovorkhangai aimag, employing some 20 people, Saikhanbileg said. The Cabinet Secretariat head reported about construction works of paved-roads to run to six aimags from the city, thermal power station in nine aimags and apartments with 1,000 flats, and then obliged the local governors to pay attention to these works, to control them and to give related reports to the cabinet. Saying that fully-equipped diagnosis centers have been set up in 11 aimags, Saikhanbileg pointed out these aimags are now time to regularize activities of these centers, to re-train medical doctors and make the medical services more effective and adequate. During the meeting, the Minister of Construction and Urban Development Ts.Bayarsaikhan reported that the “New soum” project was implemented in three soums last year, and it will continue in other 16 soums this year. The United Nations (UN) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) plan to realize programmes on reforms in 12 soums, he added.