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Ural can’t believe his eyes
Regions do not know how to properly report on the implementation of national projects
The federal authorities do not trust the regions' reports on the implementation of national projects. In the Ural Federal District, presidential envoy Pyotr Latyshev does not believe the governors' reports so much that he went on a series of trips to municipalities. The main goal is to find out how things really stand with national projects.In the past week, completely unexpectedly for his subordinates and even more so for the heads of cities, the plenipotentiary representative found himself in the cities of Kyshtym, Kasli and Sysert (the first two are Chelyabinsk region, the last is Sverdlovsk). In each of the municipalities, Mr. Latyshev was interested in how municipal authorities are working on four national projects, what programs they are developing themselves, what funds they plan to receive from the regional budget, and which from the federal budget.
At the information center of the embassy, a Vremya Novostei correspondent was told that, on the whole, the envoy was pleased with what he saw. True, he could not resist making critical comments, reproaching his interlocutors for the lack of a systematic approach to work, poor development of plans for project implementation and unwillingness to look for extra-budgetary sources for work. His office does not say where the plenipotentiary will go now. It is only known that Pyotr Latyshev decided to arrange a large-scale inspection of the administrations of all regions included in the Ural Federal District.
The plenipotentiary representative was prompted to do this by the results of the implementation of national projects in the first quarter of 2006. At a special meeting at the embassy, where the first deputies of all six regional governors included in the Ural Federal District were invited, Mr. Latyshev accused his guests of submitting incorrect reports. The president's spokesman was outraged that in a large number of positive messages there was very little specificity. Meanwhile, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, for a similar meeting at the Russian level, requested precise data for all regions and municipalities.
The lack of real indicators outraged the plenipotentiary so much that instead of the usual diplomatic resolutions following the meetings, a rather harsh message was sent to the media. It said that “a number of indicators in the forms sent from the regions are simply missing, for some of them the information is provided partially, the order of data measurement units is not respected, and the data themselves often diverge from the data used by the subjects of the Russian Federation in other documents; There is particularly insufficient information on the results achieved at the municipal level.”
But this is not the worst thing. According to the plenipotentiary, in a number of regions the very idea of national projects is incorrectly interpreted. For example, in the “Affordable Housing” project, its implementation means only the volume of housing put into operation. Petr Latyshev believes that in addition to construction, the work should be assessed according to the following indicators: the availability of mortgage lending, the development of the building materials industry, lending to construction sites to equip them with communal infrastructure, the transition from spot construction to integrated development, reducing the time required to approve documentation for the provision of land.
On the last point, almost all regions in the Urals Federal District performed poorly. The time frame for approving documentation for the provision of land plots still ranges from 6 to 18 months. The presidential representative names the Tyumen region as an example to follow, where, when organizing work within the “one window” and parallel approval of project documentation in different supervisions, the approval time has been reduced to three months.
Tyumen residents still serve as an example for other regions in terms of data collection methods. If in the Sverdlovsk region heads of individual cities and ministers report to the prime minister once a week, then in the Tyumen region governor Vladimir Yakushev has been traveling to municipalities for three weeks, collecting information on the implementation of national projects.
Regional officials who listened to the plenipotentiary's tirade have not yet responded to his remarks. Thus, Sverdlovsk Prime Minister Alexei Vorobyov, having announced the allocation of 16 billion rubles from the regional budget for housing construction, the next day after the meeting at the embassy, he assembled a headquarters for national projects in the traditional format.