AIMAGS HEADS: OUR LOCALITIES ARE DEVELOPING

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Administrators of localities called a conference on November 4 to highlight their implementation of the Government's obligation to transform the aimags’ centers into cities and problems they face. The Governors of Arkhangai, Bayankhongor, Govi-Altai, Govisumber, Dundgovi, Sukhbaatar, Khovd and Uvs provinces said their localities' centers have been changing in the last two years, many streets, roads and apartment districts have been constructed. A favorable for business environment has been created thanks to providing of heat and electric power which used to be main difficulty, they added. It is a great achievement that not only the aimags’ centers but also soums have started to develop according to standards of modern communities besides the 19 soums, which are being renovated into model communities, there are also other soums who are on their own are changing for better, stressed the Governors. Another great achievement is that a migration from countryside to Ulaanbaatar has shrunk. "A major part of migrants in the past 20 years was from the most remote aimags. However, by the first nine month of this year, 2,000 people of Uvs, 1,000 people of Khovd and 130 families of Sukhbaatar aimag have returned to their birthplaces," they said. Living environment in these provinces has greatly improved thanks to changes over the budget management that allowed the aimags' administrations to plan their budgets together with people and to spend and distribute revenues in accordance with their own decisions, the Governors said.