09 September 2003 14:33
Senior Chechen official details progress of economic recovery
Moscow, 9 September: Chechnya managed to avoid economic collapse during the past three years, Khuseyn Isayev, head of
the State Council of Chechnya, told ITAR-TASS on Tuesday [9 September].
"State bodies have been formed in the republic. New jobs are being created. The economy and the agricultural
sector are being restored. Some 160,000 residents of Chechnya receive unemployment allowances," he said.
According to his information, five brick-making and ten asphalt-making factories have resumed work; production
capacities of the Orgtekhnika, Avtomashstroy, Transmash and Pishchemash [engineering] factories will start working soon.
A meat-packing factory, a dairy factory, the second stage of a factory for turning out mineral water, four quarries for
the production of inertia materials [as received] and the second stage of thermal power plant No 4 in Argun will be put
in operation this year. "The functioning of those enterprises will permit to create 20,000 new jobs," Isayev
stressed.
A total of 18,000 students are studying at three higher educational establishments of Chechnya, he continued. There
are eight colleges, 12 vocational schools and some 450 secondary schools in the republic. One hundred and thirty-four
public health institutions have been restored and another 44 will start working before the end of the year.
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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