MINSK, 15 January (BelTA) – Every district must be made into a self-sufficient unit so that the people who live there can receive everything they need, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said while approving the appointments of three new heads of the district executive committees and deputy chair of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee, BelTA has learned.
The head of state noted that a district needs to be made into a self-sufficient unit so that the people living there can receive proper maintenance and services. “Fortunately, we have no unemployment, but there is another issue: in some places there aren’t enough workers. But we’re used to solving this issue in the old-fashioned way. We have enough people, but we just need to organize things properly. Every district must be made into a self-sufficient unit where people can live decently and have everything they need: jobs, wages, shops, schools, healthcare, kindergartens, and so on. We especially need to restore agricultural services. This is a closed cycle,” he emphasized.
The president recalled that such a practice was common in Soviet times. “You are all very young, but you may still remember how things were in the Soviet Union. A district was a proper, self-sufficient unit. It had its own service enterprises, both a construction mobile mechanical division and a road-building one. Some elements of that system still remain today. There are district agricultural services; we are now reviving them. I understand you are familiar with this topic," Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “The chairperson of an executive committee must have everything within reach, from construction to production, both in manufacturing and in agriculture. Certainly, it is primarily agricultural production, but there are industrial enterprises as well.”
The president recalled that such a practice was common in Soviet times. “You are all very young, but you may still remember how things were in the Soviet Union. A district was a proper, self-sufficient unit. It had its own service enterprises, both a construction mobile mechanical division and a road-building one. Some elements of that system still remain today. There are district agricultural services; we are now reviving them. I understand you are familiar with this topic," Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “The chairperson of an executive committee must have everything within reach, from construction to production, both in manufacturing and in agriculture. Certainly, it is primarily agricultural production, but there are industrial enterprises as well.”
Speaking about regional development, Aleksandr Lukashenko also highlighted the successful idea of the One District – One Project initiative, the implementation of which, in his words, should be continued.
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