Bashkiria will receive 900 million rubles of federal subsidies for modernization of preschool education system

UFA, 29 April 2015. /Bashinform News Agency, Elmira Sabirova/. Bashkortostan will receive 900 million rubles of federal subsidies for the modernization of pre-school education in 2015. This was reported on the website of the Government of Russia.

The corresponding decree was signed by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. The document approves the allocation of subsidies between the regions provided in 2015 from the federal budget for the modernization of regional systems of pre-school education. 30 billion rubles will be distributed among 85 subjects of the Federation. The document was signed within the framework of the state program "Development of Education" for 2013-2020.

"The decisions taken will help to ensure 100 percent availability of pre-school education for children aged three to seven years", it is said in a memorandum to the decree.

According to the Ministry of Education RB, the coverage of children aged 1 to 7 years with pre-school education is 67.4 percent in the republic. Today 1567 kindergartens work in the region. A little more than six thousand children from three to seven years are in the waiting list for places in preschool institutions.