PRIME MINISTER INSTRUCTED TO ACTIVELY CONTINUE WORK ON GASIFICATION OF SETTLEMENTS

At today's meeting of the Government, held in an online format, Prime Minister Askar Mamin instructed the Ministers and regional governors to actively continue work on gasification of settlements and said that a new code has been developed to ensure environmental safety.
According to the Prime Minister, the level of gasification will reach 60% with the connection of 2120 settlements or 11.7 million residents in 2025.
The meeting named the most gasified regions with a gasification level of over 90 percent as of January 1, 2020. In particular, Atyrau region - 99.6%, Mangistau region-99%, Almaty city-98.8%, West Kazakhstan region-96.2%, Shymkent city-92.1% and Aktobe region-90.1%.
Askar Mamin also noted that by 2025 it is planned to increase the area of forests by 500 thousand hectares and plant more than 2 billion trees.
In addition, the Prime Minister said that it is planned to launch 6 pilot projects of waste processing plants in the cities of Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Shymkent, Atyrau, Aktobe, Taraz. This will attract at least 200 billion tenge of private investment and increase the share of solid waste processing up to 30%.