Housing and utilities companies in Tatarstan in 2011 spend 2 billion roubles on reform

An extended meeting themed “The results of implementing housing and utilities reform programmes and improving service quality” is in progress in Kazan.

The meeting is chaired by President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. attendees are Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, State Council deputy chairman Alexander Gusev and other officials.
The amount spent to renovate the branch be comparison with 2010 doubled, I.Faizullin said. In 2012 a federal ”Integrated programme of modernising and reforming the housing and utilities branch in 2010-2012“ needs to be launched.

The programme envisages co-funding, to begin in 2013.

“Efficient implementation of the integrated programme is impossible without full cataloguing of the housing and utilities facilities. Building a single database should allow systemise the process of formulating and implementing construction and reconstruction programmes. Funds disbursement efficiency needs to be monitored over the course of facilities operation,” the minister urged.

Of the 233 housing and utilities companies scheduled for reorganisation in 2005, 72 became privately owned, 5 were state unitary enterprises, 47 were dissolved and 105 were involved in a bankruptcy, he reported.

“The high percentage of the utilities infrastructure’s key assets depreciation and absence of mechanisms of refunding and state guarantees restrains involving businesses in managing and investing in the housing and utilities branch, as well as developing public private partnership. To solve the tasks, we expect to set up a single republican fund. The fund’s assets are intended to be collected with the companies’ own funds, technological connection proceeds, investment surplus, as well as funds provided by commercial banks, Tatarstan budget and, possibly, State Fund for Housing Reform,” the minister said.