800 THOUSAND SQUARE METERS OF HOUSING WIL BE HANDED OVER IN THE TURKESTAN REGION

Construction works are in full swing in the Turkestan region. The volume of construction works for the reporting period amounted to 70.6 billion tenge, an increase of 73.0% compared to last year. It is expected that by the end of 2021, the volume of construction works will amount to 305.9 billion tenge. Governor of the region Umirzak Shukeyev elaborated on the construction industry of the region during a briefing organized by the Central Communications Service under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the special site of the “Farab” library in Turkestan.

According to the speaker, since the beginning of the year, the total area of commissioned housing has amounted to 162.7 thousand square meters, an increase of 16.5% compared to the corresponding period last year. For the Turkestan region, the plan for housing commissioning through all sources of financing is set at 790 thousand square meters.

At the same time, the region has a favorable business climate for doing business. There are more than 141 thousand small and medium-sized businesses operating in the region, and their number has increased by 14.3 thousand in 3 years. The industry employs 217.2 thousand people. This is 26.5% of the economically active population.

"The amount of funds issued to entrepreneurs under the programs " Business Roadmap 2025 " and "Economy of Simple Things" for 3 years amounted to 97.2 billion tenge. Thanks to measures to support small and medium-sized businesses, the volume of products produced over 3 years increased by 5.3 times and at the end of the year amounted to 823.2 billion tenge. To date, 310 projects worth 41.2 billion tenge have been approved under the "Economy of simple things" program. In addition, 514 projects worth 16.5 billion tenge were financed under the "Business Roadmap – 2025" program, " the governor of the region said at a live press conference.

It is worth noting that according to a study conducted by the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan together with the Accounting Committee, the Center for Research and Evaluation of Efficiency in the rating of Ease of doing Business, Turkestan region was recognized as the best region in 2020 (2017-2018 – 17th place; 2018-2019 – 4th place; 2019-2020 – 1st place).