Infrastructure, social conditions. What ideas for rural development have been submitted to the online platform "People's Five-Year Plan"

December 11, Minsk . The proposals for rural development received on the online platform "People's Five-Year Plan" were reported by the chairperson of the united organization of scientific and practical centers of the healthcare system of the Belarusian Union of Women, deputy chairperson of the public association "Belarusian Union of Women" Inna Soldatenko in .

"Those initiatives that concern rural development, rural infrastructure development, employment, demographic issues related to rural areas, crime prevention, prevention of alcohol and psychotropic substance abuse, everything that concerns activities and life in the village, will be taken into account and will definitely be presented to the interdepartmental council for analysis and, possibly, proposals," said Inna Soldatenko.

As for citizens' proposals concerning life in the countryside, she noted that 40.3% of the responses were about infrastructure and amenities, 24.4% - social conditions, 12.6% - transport accessibility, 6.7% - ecology and quality of life, 5.9% - access to goods and services, 5.9% - state support, 4.2% - development of rural culture and traditions.
Speaking about the initiatives that were most memorable, Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian Party "Belaya Rus", Deputy Chairman of the ROO "Belaya Rus" Andrei Basak named a specific proposal to develop a program to return people to rural areas.

"A very important issue, which really has a deep character. We see the outflow of people from rural areas, we see how many proposals are coming in, including on the development of the village, improving life in the village, how to stop the outflow of people. This is very important. It is in the village, in the countryside, in small towns that the depth of our people is preserved, it is there that the traditions of Belarusians are preserved. And it is very important that they do not blur, do not disappear," said Andrei Basak.
He noted that the entire Belarusian people, in fact, came from rural areas. "It is very important to leave the deep people in the village, to preserve those spiritual, family traditions that are inherent in our people," he is sure.
Speaking about the proposals that were especially memorable, sociologist-consultant Vladimir Litvinovich singled out a group of ideas that concern the development of their settlements and the development of regions in general. "I think these proposals should be a good source of inspiration for local authorities. People themselves feel best how to make things easier, more convenient, more accessible, more interesting for them. I am sure that this information will be very useful for local authorities in developing their regions," he said.

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