OREANDA-NEWS.  January 22, 2014. A key direction of the budget policy for 2014 in the area of relations of the state budget with the local budgets appears balancing of interests of both the country and the regions that are directed to the rational use of the economic potential of every region with making maximally possible economic effect.

So, the general resource of the local budgets for 2014 in comparison with 2013 has been increased by 9.8% or by UAH 21.7 bln.

At this the investment resource of the local budgets for the social economic development of the territories increased by UAH 3.4 bln and amounted UAH 16.2 bln.

It should be noted here that in the State Budget of Ukraine for 2015 there have been envisaged for the first time expenses for:

-     Enlargement of a network of pre-school educational institutions, modernization of children’s playgrounds of secondary and pre-school educational institutions;

-     Providing with nutrition (breakfasts) the pupils of 5-11 grades of secondary educational institutions;

-     Extra payments for the amount and quality of the fulfilled work for the medical workers who render primary medical aid in the regions that don’t participate in a pilot project of reforming of the healthcare branch.

Together with that, the funds have been planned for: 

-     Raising of minimal salary rates, official salary (tariff rate) for the employee of the I tariff category of the STS (single tariff scale);

-     Raising the level of financial maintenance of the local budgets in terms of expenses directed to payment of wages to the budget sphere employees and payments for energy carriers;

-     Payment of assistance for care after invalids of the I or II groups resulted from mental disorder;

-     Ensuring additional payments for the medical employees of an ambulance system;

-     Support of reforming of the healthcare system.

It should be also noted that in the current year, like it has been in the previous years, the state support of the development of regions will be carried out through the state regional development fund, the volume of which is UAH 3 480 mln.

At this, targeting concentration of the funds of the state support of the regional development in 2014 subvention from the state budget to the local budgets for the measures directed to social and economic development of certain territories in the amount of UAH 1 bln appear to be a component of the state regional development fund.