30 January 2003 09:08
Unemployment said to be falling in Chechnya
Moscow, 30 January: An estimated 196,800 people had permanent employment in Chechnya in 2002. "This is 46,000
people more than at the end of the previous year," a source in the government commission for the socioeconomic
rehabilitation of Chechnya told Interfax on Thursday [30 January].
"Eighty-six and a half thousand people are working in the republic's economy; 65,000 are state servants or
are employed by local self-governance bodies and another 79,500 are self-employed," the source said.
Chechnya has 20 employment centres which were contacted by over 210,000 people in 2002, the source said.
Of all people who contacted the employment centres 200,000 people were officially recognized as unemployed and are
receiving unemployment benefits. A family of three gets R950 per month plus other benefits, the source said.
In 2002, over 110,000 residents of Chechnya went through work-training programmes, Interfax was told.
[Interfax news agency] |
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