Radiy Khabirov: Bashkiria will receive 175 billion rubles within six years as part of national projects

UFA, 9 April 2019. /Bashinform News Agency, Azat Gizatullin/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

The key task for the Bashkortostan economy over the next six years will be the implementation of national projects. The republic will receive 175 billion rubles for these purposes, of which 130 billion rubles will come from the federal and republican budgets, 45 billion from extra-budgetary sources. The Acting Head of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov stated that delivering a report on the work of the Government in 2018 at the plenary session of the State Assembly RB.

Bashkortostan takes the first place in the Volga Federal District and 8th in Russia in tax and non-tax revenues to budgets of all levels. Last year, Bashkortostan transferred 600 billion rubles to the federal budget. According to the head of the republic, it is necessary to strengthen the work on attracting federal subsidies. In 2018, the economy of Bashkortostan managed to attract 65 billion rubles from the federal budget. In the first quarter of 2019, it was raised by 12 percent more federal funds than during the same period of the last year.

Speaking about the tasks facing the Government, Radiy Khabirov highlighted several areas.

“We will pay much attention to the priority development areas - PDAs. There are five of them in our republic this year. The sixth territory could have been created in Uchaly, but due to the short-sightedness of the local administration, this opportunity was missed. One of the positive examples of the PDAs development is the city of Kumertau, where ten residents are already operating, more than 2 billion rubles have been invested in the city's economy, ”said Radiy Khabirov.

This year, work has begun in the republic on the creation of a special economic zone in the Ishimbay district. This proposal was supported by the Federation Council; by September 1, the necessary package of documents should be submitted to the Russian Government.