At the government session chaired by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Alikhan Smailov, comprehensive plans for the socio-economic development of the western regions were considered. Akim of the region Nurlan Nogayev spoke about how the plan is being implemented in the Mangystau region.

“In order to implement the current measures as soon as possible and ensure the stability of the socio-political situation in the region, as a result of the ongoing work, the current Comprehensive Plan was updated. The updated Comprehensive Plan includes 226 measures, of which 96 are within the framework of economic development, 54 — housing and infrastructure, 63 — social and environmental, and 13 — civil defense. As a result of the implementation of the planned measures, about 55 thousand jobs are expected to be created,’’ said Nogayev.

As part of the Comprehensive Plan, special attention is paid to the following two main areas.

First, the demographic growth trend requires special attention to the provision of affordable housing and the development of infrastructure in the region. To this end, measures will be taken to build housing, improve the quality of roads, build and reconstruct gas, electricity, and heat supply facilities.

In addition, in order to gradually address the most important issue for the region — the shortage of drinking water, in a comprehensive plan, 9 projects with a total capacity of desalination of 260 thousand cubic meters of water and the provision of drinking water to 12 rural settlements will be implemented. As part of the update of the comprehensive plan, work will begin this year on the construction of MAEC-Kazatomprom desalination plants with a capacity of 24,000 cubic meters per day. In addition, it will be possible to cover 5 new microdistricts with engineering infrastructure, build an additional 8.5 km of roads as part of improving the quality of city roads.

The second important direction is the social component of the region. Within the framework of this direction, the plan considered the issues of training, retraining and solving the shortage of the necessary personnel, development of healthcare infrastructure, culture and sports.

In this direction, in 2022, 5 reanimobiles will be purchased through leasing, and in 2023-2024, 5 healthcare organizations will be provided with modern medical equipment. As for financing, the total budget of the Comprehensive Plan is 2.1 trillion tenge, of which 62% falls on private investment. At the same time, the volume of budget funds amounted to 493 billion tenge, incl. republican budget — 375 billion tenge, local budget — 118 billion tenge.