SPEAKER WORKS IN KHOVD

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ The Parliament Speaker has started a working tour from Khovd aimag's Tsetseg soum.

This soum--1,200 km far from the capital city and 230 km from the aimag's center, has 643 families with 2,700 people and over 80,700 heads of livestock, according to statistics. A head of the soum's Citizens' Representative Khural J.Monkhzorig said they have overcome this winter successfully, and lambing season has started and is going well.

He said all in the soum are satisfied with a decision to create for them a reliable energy resource with a capital of MNT 1.7 billion. In the province, this soum is the only soum that has not been connected to electricity source.

The soum's people said they suffer from a dust being risen by many vehicles which roar nearby transporting coal, and asked the Speaker to help them in dealing with this situation.

The Speaker said he supports the views of the local people and authorities and pointed out that the locality must be real owners of their mineral resources and that a distribution of the benefits from the miniong sector must go without any harm to environment.

Then the Speaker spoke about the irregular meeting of the parliamentary autumn session, held on March 5-9 in order to tackle some vital matters and make important decisions. He added that one of the achievements of this session was a creation of a chance for people to tackle their social matters in a way of strengthening the country's economic basis, "also parliament made some important decisions, for example, it approved the law on social welfare."

The Speaker said Khovd aimag received the largest amount of investments recent times, almost three times more than that of other provinces. Out of MNT 70 billion 42 billion will be spent for road construction, 1.7 billion will go for furnishing centers of bagas (the smallest administrative unit in localities), connecting them with electric lines, ensuring reliable works of communications.

On Wednesday, the Speaker legged a military unit named after Khatanbaatar Magsarjav, and held a meeting with personnel. Then he met with people of Khovd aimag and left for Bayan-Olgii aimag.

B.Khuder

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