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Lukashenko points to people’s dissatisfaction with utilities sector
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MINSK, 5 April (BelTA) – One in five complaints submitted to the Belarus President Administration deals with the poor quality of work of the housing and utilities sector, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a government meeting on 5 April to discuss the performance of the country’s housing and utilities sector, BelTA has learned.
“The documents submitted to me suggest that you are doing a lot to increase the reliability of equipment, elevators, engineering networks, and ensure the payback of almost all types of services. At the same time, I am alarmed that lately every fifth appeal to the Belarus President Administration deals with the poor quality of work of the housing and utilities sector,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.
People are mostly concerned about the quality of drinking water and the lack of effort to keep settlements neat and tidy, including streets and roads.
“Therefore, today I would like to hear about progress to fulfill by repeated instructions to keep things clean and tidy on the ground, and the instruction to make economic entities take care of their adjacent territory. In other words, school students should learn the basics of manual labor in a nearby park: they should do regular clean-ups, paint benches. Workers of a plant or a factory should take care of the territory around the factory. These areas should be assigned to labor collectives. It remains only to control and make sure that everything is in order. This is not a burden for institutions or factories. This is like a warm-up, and the amount of clean-up work is not that big so not everyone will be involved in it,” the president is convinced.
The head of state added that not everything is proceeding smoothly with landscaping. It is quite a common thing when seedlings were purchased, planted, but they died. “I really want to see order not only in Minsk, but also in all our cities, towns and settlements, so that you can see that people care about the place where they live. At the same time, I know that many people themselves are ready to improve these territories and courtyards. We need to organize them: to provide them with tools, planting material, pool together and show what to do. This is the way to make things work,” the head of state said.
Aleksandr Lukashenko remarked that it is not for nothing that foreigners know Belarus as a clean and tidy country. “And we should not lose this image because of our sluggishness and mismanagement,” the president stressed.
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