Ulaanbaatar
Decisions made at Cabinet meeting on March 11
Politics
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. The Cabinet held a regular session today, March 11, and made the following decisions.
- An additional financing for the building of a 300-bed maternity hospital in Khan-Uul District will be reviewed and approved, and relevant agreements will be revised. The construction is currently 90 percent complete.
- The cabinet will discuss a package bill on social protection, pension reform and social insurance at its regular meeting scheduled next week. The government is seeking to gain legislative reform and improve governance and financial management of social insurance system and to introduce multi-pillar pension system.
- It had been decided to implement a project on The fuel management system of the new international airport of Ulaanbaatar city under invest–operate–transfer concession and to select the concessions through direct contracting. The project is removed from the concession list as it was decided that a state-owned entity will be in charge of the fuel supply.
- The Cabinet gave an order to stop all types of activities of dumping waste, and sewage of factories and treatment plants in Ulaanbaatar in unauthorized areas and piling up wastes, emitting odors and causing negative environmental impacts. Mayor of Ulaanbaatar S.Amarsaikhan is charged to deliver warnings to relevant business entities and ensure their compliance with labor safety and health requirements.
- The cabinet decided to give monetary awards to the artists and athletes, who demonstrated great success at international competitions and events. Specifically, MNT 40 million to the artists from the “Mongolian Circus Development Center”, who won silver medal from an international circus festival in China, MNT 34 million for the artists of the Mongolian Circus Association, who gained silver medal from the Monte-Carlo International Circus Festival, and MNT 19 million to Ch.Tsetsen, student of the Mongolian State Conservatory, who won at the Kocian Violin Competition in Czech and MNT 14 million each to students T.Udval and T.Esui, who were placed in the second places and MNT 9 million each to students J.Naransoyombo and U.Misheel, who won the third place in the competition.
