Capital’s administration offices to be moved to city outskirts
Cabinet met to discuss some agendas on February 22. At the beginning of the meeting, Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh instructed Mayor of Ulaanbaatar S.Batbold to carry out preparations to move the Ulaanbaatar Mayor Office, Citizen’s Representative Council, and some organizations under Ulaanbaatar administration to New Yarmag Town in 4th and 8th khoroos of Khan-Uul District.
Some 1,933 people are currently working for Ulaanbaatar administration offices, which provide nearly 5,700 individuals and enterprises with 332 different state services a day on average.
The government expects that this move will help reduce traffic jams in Ulaanbaatar, and provide people with fast and accessible services.
During the meeting, Cabinet made a decision to put forward a proposal to reimburse excise taxes worth 73.8 billion MNT on diesel fuel paid by Ulaanbaatar Railway, a Russian Mongolian joint venture, to the state from 1998 to 2015.
The government plans to issue the reimbursement of 73.8 billion MNT by deducting losses and principle and interest payments of de-
layed projects being implemented with soft loans from the Japan Bank
for International Cooperation to improve the Mongolian rail transport.
Cabinet reviewed the 2017 report of a program to recover the nation’s economy and some ministers were tasked to accelerate delayed projects under the program.
Some 136 out of 204 measures outlined in the program were implemented and 68 measures are planned to be carried out in the first half of this year. The program is expected to have a positive impact on the social and macroeconomic level.
Cabinet agreed to study requests proposed by organizations and people of Khentii and Sukhbaatar provinces during Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh’s tour in the provinces. The requests include the establishing of sanitation and inspection centers in Kherlen soum of Khentii Province and Baruun-Urt soum of Sukhbaatar Province, and provision of vehicles for centers and Khentii’s central hospital, restoration of the art theater of Sukhbaatar Province, and upgrading the theater’s musical instruments and other equipment.
Ministers also discussed agendas of the 21 meeting of the Mongolia-Russia intergovernmental commission.