Mayor wants quicker relocation of ger district residents

Mayor G. Munkhbayar has instructed city officials to speed up work on the program to relocate inhabitants of ger districts. They would be offered apartments, of different sizes according to their choice, in lieu of the land where they live now. Until these apartment blocks come up on these lands in about five years, they will be provided with temporary apartments. All this entails a lot of legal work, changing land ownership rights and occupation agreements.

J. Aldarjavkhlan, Executive Director of Residential Apartment Financing Corporation, says making this temporary relocation compulsory is a better option than paying cash compensation for the land any household gives up to make way for apartment blocks to be sold later. If people get money, they will just move elsewhere and so ger districts will keep coming up in new areas.

Work on these temporary apartments has begun in several parts of the city and will proceed in phases. Persuading ger district households has not been, and will not be, easy, especially as many want more money for their land. At present, it has been decided that 0.07 hectares of land is to be exchanged for a two-room flat.