President meets locals of Arkhangai aimag

Society
unurzul@montsame.mn
2018-03-21 14:55:05
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ President Kh.Battulga held a meeting with locals of Arkhangai aimag on March 19, as a continuation of his series of meetings with the people of Mongolia.

Currently, Arkhangai aimag suffers winter complication, with white dzud (heavy snowfall) in 16 soums and loss of over 87 thousand head of livestock. Moreover, 13.4 thousand entities and residents of the aimag received loans worth MNT24.2 billion in total to run business. However, the volume of non-standard loans increased by 86.3 percent, bad loans increased by 23.6 percent and the volume of loans issued decreased by 3.2 percent in the aimag.

During the meeting, locals raised questions and sought the President’s support on various matters, such as unemployment, higher loan interest, a need of large constructional works and industrialization in the aimag.

M.Unurzul