Transport, housing and school issues - Ryzhenkov held a reception of citizens in Postavy

September 9, Pastavy. First Deputy HEAD of the Presidential Administration Maxim Ryzhenkov held a reception today at the Postavy District Executive Committee, BelTA has learned.

A resident of the village of Verenki was the first to apply for an appointment: the number of flights of the passenger bus Pastavy - Gumenniki was reduced. it is inconvenient for children to get home from school on time. The peculiarity is that schoolchildren from the Postavy district go to an educational institution in the Myadel district, but this is a different region. Maksim Ryzhenkov noted that he would deal with the issue in MINSK, talk with the local authorities and the transport organization.

Pensioners from Molodechno addressed the problem of the impossibility of living in a private house due to the construction of a high-rise building nearby. The district executive committee and the owners of the house cannot agree on a compromise solution: build a new house, give the owner two apartments equal to the footage of a private house, or compensate for an amount equal to the cost of housing. The local authorities were instructed to discuss the issue with the owner in a month and find a solution. If the problem remains, then Maxim Ryzhenkov intends to come to the applicants himself and see everything on the spot.

Parents of schoolchildren came with a collective appeal. Their children used to study at Postavy Basic School No. 5, which was recently closed, although the school was recently renovated. According to them, they were not explained the reasons for the closure of the educational institution and were not informed about it in time - the parents found out everything after the decision of the district executive committee. They are unhappy with this attitude, and now it is inconvenient for children to get to school, first-graders need to travel with several transfers. "So many appeals related to the closure of schools, as from the Vitebsk region, do not come to us from any other region of the country," said Maxim Ryzhenkov. After receiving citizens, he decided to go to the former school in order to better study the situation.

During the reception, people also applied on the topic of pensions, housing and medical care. Speaking with journalists, the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration noted that he wanted to come to the Postavy District to see how the decisions made on the development of infrastructure and production in regional centers are being implemented here. “I was pleasantly surprised by the new production facilities: an agricultural association based on a dairy plant. A beautiful and modern enterprise, whose products are in demand not only in our country, but also abroad. Also a good woodworking enterprise, its products go to the West. leaders, we can talk about the further development of the region," said Maxim Ryzhenkov.

He stressed that if young people stay in their native places, then the development of school infrastructure will also be discussed. In the case of reverse processes, unpopular decisions will have to be made to optimize educational institutions. Painful for parents, the school question was raised at the reception of citizens. “Unfortunately, not all of our local officials have learned how to competently talk to people when making certain decisions. Yes, schools probably need to be optimized taking into account the demographic situation in small towns and district centers. But you need to talk to people, show the advantages of moving children from an ungraded school, where, perhaps, there are no teachers in many subjects.When there is an optimization from the worst to the best, comfortable conditions are created, the traffic schedule changes and people are told about it, there are no questions anywhere. And when the local authorities made a decision, the school was closed and think whatever you want, while they did not always go to a meeting to resolve related issues for studying in a new place, then questions arise. Then there is no reason to reproach parents for excessive appeal to various authorities, because many of their questions were not heard," Maxim Ryzhenkov added.

Today he got acquainted with the work of Postavymebel OJSC, secondary school No. 1 and Postavy Dairy Plant OJSC. The last enterprise processed almost 100 thousand tons of MILK in 2020, for 7 months of this year - 52.3 thousand tons. 65% of products are exported, mainly the Russian market. In the near future, the company plans to start producing cottage cheese. The First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration talked to the workers of the dairy plant. People again raised the topic of closing the Postavy school, they were also interested in pricing issues, raising the retirement age.

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