Ulaanbaatar
National program to develop amenity services adopted
Politics
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. On November 28, the cabinet approved a national program on development of amenity services industry. The required funding for the program implementation will be reflected in government’s annual general direction and state and local budgets, to be financed by assistance and loans from international organizations and foreign countries.
The program, covering 2020-2024, will increase the number of public shower facilities and other amenity services and their working capacity. For instance, there were 9019 public shower facilities and amenity service points in 2018, the number will grow 10 thousand by 2024. The number of employees of this industry, which was estimated at 22 thousand, will reach 32 thousand in 2024.
As of 2018, around 25.2 percent of the people working in the amenity service industry was engaged in hairdressing and beauty services, 20.2 percent of them in tailoring and dress making, 11.6 percent in carpentry and others in public showers, photo prints, dry cleaning, shoe repair and others.
