22 October 2003 09:07
Tatarstan entrepreneurs to discuss topical issues at their congress
Kazan, 21 October: Sixty delegates to the Tatarstan congress of entrepreneurs, to be held in the city of Naberezhnyye
Chelny early next week, have been elected at the city conference of entrepreneurs held in the Tatarstan Academy of
Sciences.
Over 125,000 small businesses are registered in Tatarstan at present, giving jobs to over 600,000 residents of
Tatarstan which amounts to approximately 30 per cent of the working population. The share of small businesses in the
republic's GDP exceeds R30bn.
Fifty-six small businesses are concentrated in the republic's capital. The concerns of Kazan businessmen serve
as a litmus test for the small business sector of the economy. Despite positive trends in the medium-size and small
business development in Kazan as well as in the whole of Tatarstan, the existing momentum does not meet the needs of the
market economy or the level of the market economy or residents' entrepreneurship initiative, said Igor Privalov,
the general director of the agency for developing entrepreneurship in Tatarstan. The ineffective tax policy, abundant
controlling agencies, complex access to the finance and credit resources and a cumbersome system of accounts are the
main obstacles in the way
Kazan businessmen wrote down their concrete proposals to overcome administrative barriers and improve cooperation
between the authorities and small businesses in a resolution adopted at the conference.
The main conversation about the present- day and the future of Tatarstan entrepreneurship will be held at the
republic's forum on 28 October. The congress in Naberezhnyye Chelny should not become another protocol event, but
should be an effective tool for defining and resolving the problems preventing the development of medium-sized and small
business, Khaydar Khaliullin, the chairman of the Tatarstan association of small and medium-sized business, said.
[Tatar-Inform news agency] |
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