MOGILEV, 16 August (BelTA) – Based on results of H1 2024, Mogilev Oblast looks quite good and occupies leading positions in many respects on the national scale, but relaxing is out of the question, BelTA learned from Head of the Belarus President Administration, the president’s authorized representative for Mogilev Oblast Dmitry Krutoi after a session of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee held to review the region’s social and economic development in H1 2024.
“During today’s meeting I mentioned that Mogilev Oblast looks quite good judging by H1 2024 performance. In many parameters it occupies leading positions in the republic. But it must not relax. Actually there are some problems almost in every sector. Some of them are systematic and are repeated year after year while some are local,” Dmitry Krutoi remarked.
According to the head of the Belarus President Administration, today it was important to meet with executives of the oblast’s enterprises and organizations. “Under the sanctions pressure on the economy, it was important to find out how the leaders of key enterprises are coping with it, by how much they have reoriented the export flows. Foreign trade operations of each enterprise represent a very important and significant part in the sales segment,” he stressed. “Another thing to consider is financial results, of course: difficulties with payments, their effect on commitments to the state budget and on wages of citizens.”
Generally, the situation in the region is quite good everywhere, Dmitry Krutoi said. At the same time, it is necessary to pay closer and more serious attention to individual enterprises. “Today during the session of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee, for example, from the report of the head of Bobruisk Executive Committee it became clear that some enterprises do not meet certain targets of the business plan set at the beginning of the year. That is why we will pay closer attention to their reports on performance in January-September 2024. Behind them are many thousands of employees, and it is important not to allow any social tensions. Moreover, there are no tensions as far as I could hear from today’s report,” the head of the Belarus President Administration said. “A production program, investment plans are getting reworked. New equipment to make a new range of products is getting delivered. Therefore, certainly, people should understand that there are certain temporary difficulties connected with new investments. However, active manufacturing of new products will start at some enterprises as early as in 2025.”
Dmitry Krutoi drew attention to another important topic – social obligations. “All important social programs and projects related to the improvement and major repairs of our social facilities should get back on schedule at the end of September,” he noted. “In conditions of a complicated economy, which is essentially a mobilized economy, the president has made decisions to redistribute some of the additional budget revenues in favor of social spending. The disbursements are assigned to every oblast and every district of each oblast. While the transfers are handled quite well at the oblast level, individual districts are seriously lagging behind. It was important to find out why: whether design organizations are to blame, whether construction companies lack the capacity and need help from other districts.”
Since all of these projects are announced to local residents, including via district mass media, it is important to honor these commitments and prevent disruptions, the official pointed out.
Preparations for the new academic year were on the session’s agenda. “Mogilev Oblast has increased appropriations to finance repairs in educational institutions. This is why it was important to understand whether we will be able to issue readiness certificates to all of them. There is no doubt that we will,” Dmitry Krutoi said. “Our children will go to new schools. The schools have been furnished in full compliance with our curricula and our education process.”
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