Working visit of Minister M.K. Karabaev to WKO

Working visit of Minister M.K. Karabaev to WKO
In the period from May 26 to 27 this year, a delegation of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MIIR RK), headed by Minister M.K. Karabaev, paid a working visit to the West Kazakhstan region.
In WKO, Marat Karimzhanovich met with the construction companies of the region, in which a number of topical issues and ways to solve them were voiced at the meeting.
Also, the minister visited the infrastructure facilities of the region and got acquainted with the implementation of projects, their modernization, construction and reconstruction.
When visiting infrastructure facilities, the minister got acquainted with the progress in the construction of IKI and residential buildings in the Akzhaiyk microdistrict. The following issues were discussed at the construction site:
- Allocation of funds in 2024 for the construction of engineering and communication infrastructure (ICI);
- On the possibility of allocating funds through the Ministry of Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2024 for the construction of a boiler house for 49 Gcal;
- Annual allocation of funds from the Republican budget (RB) up to 8 billion tenge to finance the construction and purchase of rental housing for WKO;
- Increased funding from the Republic of Belarus for the purchase of the 1st apartment from 9.6 million tenge to 17 million tenge (rental housing)
- Increasing the repayment term of a bonded loan for the construction of credit housing from 2 to 4 years;
- Increase for the WKO limit on the issue of government securities from 6.6 billion tenge to 11.0 billion tenge;
- Reducing the amount of the down payment to 20% (JSC Otbasy Bank), creating preferential mortgage programs for the purchase of primary and secondary housing, including the possibility of acquiring secondary housing in the 7-20-25 program, increasing the marginal cost of apartments according to the program for WKO from 15 million tenge to 25 million tenge, considering the possibility of reducing the minimum sufficiency threshold for using part of pension savings to improve housing conditions.
The minister also got acquainted with the activities of the Bolashak-T house-building plant, which manufactures reinforced concrete products for the construction of residential, public and industrial buildings, and VodEcoFiltr LLP, which produces various water supply installations.