Ukraine to Decrease Communal Services Rates
OREANDA-NEWS. May 26, 2011. The Government should adopt a unified algorithm for calculating fair rates and strictly control it to everywhere it is being held. This was stressed by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov at the session of the Cabinet of Ministers.
Next session of the Government on 1 June will be devoted to this important issue.
“We will hear the profile Ministry and heads of local authorities who have allowed chaos in the tariff sphere, - noted Mykola Azarov. - We will make a decision and personnel in particular”.
Now it has been complete analysis of the reasonableness of tariffs for housing services throughout the country, which showed where necessary to eliminate unjustified rates, remove several times difference for tariffs in different regions and cities.
Mykola Azarov stressed that he relies on public assistance to restore order in the tariff area.
“What we finally shall do? Clear and affordably say to people: here is how it is necessary to count tariffs. Check, supervise the local authorities; require the report for each penny which you have paid to communal services”, told the Prime Minister. He expressed confidence that the results of such work “would be obvious and fair” and in many cases the rates will be lowered.
Mykola Azarov charged to the Minister of Justice Oleksandr Lavrynovych to order the Ministry of Justice to submit for consideration the Governments of the offer on the legal mechanism of the report before consumers of municipal services which would enter countrywide.
The Government and citizen will have the mechanism to prevent unreasonable increase of tariff", - the Head of the Government assured.
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