Speaker works in Arkhangai

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Within his local tour, the Speaker of parliament Z.Enkhbold Tuesday worked in Arkhangai aimag, getting familiarized with a branch of the State Bank of Mongolia (SBM) and an implementation of the “Good herder” national progamme. He also legged the administration office of the aimag. Rendering all kinds of banking services, the SBM’s branch in this province bears 19 centers and 20 units employing 99 workers, said B.Soyolmaa, the branch director. The branch’s total credit package is 25.4 billion Togrog, while a size of accumulated capital is MNT 17 billion, she added. “As of today, the branch has given loans of 204.7 million Togrog to 60 consumers. Now we are studying a chance of giving loans to 30 herders, MNT 80 million each,” she said, and then talked about the mortgage loan service and reducing of the interest to five percent. At the administration office, the Speaker heard information about present situation in the aimag and received a request from the aimag’s authorities to give its Erdenebulgan soum a status of a city. After this, the Speaker got acquainted with the “Tamir” apartment town in Erdenebulgan soum. With 356 flats, this town is fully connected to engineering pipelines and water sources. During the tour, Z.Enkhbold was accompanied by L.Erdenechimeg MP, a head of the Standing committee on environment, food and agriculture; N.Batbayar, Ya.Sanjmyatav MPs; authorities of aimags and other officials. Before Arkhangai, the Speaker had worked in Ovorkhangai, Bayankhongor, Gobi-Altai and Zavkhan aimags.