The agenda includes expanding services on the public services portal, improving road infrastructure, and preparing for the Russian Investment Forum.
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Colleagues, good afternoon.
Let us begin with a question that concerns almost all citizens of our country.
The Government continues to expand the list of services available through the single portal. Starting next year, individuals and businesses will be able to benefit from more than 100 regional services there. The relevant resolution has been signed.
Previously, such services were only available on regional online platforms or the respective agencies’ websites; some were not available digitally at all.
I am referring to applying for certain benefits for children, for vehicle technical inspection, submitting tax returns, as well as a number of other services, including registration of property ownership. It is convenient. Purchasers of a new dacha or a land plot will be able to register their ownership without the need to take time off work to travel to an office, which can be located in a different town.
Russian regions will be able to add services to the portal, for example, certification of schoolteachers, registration of applications for social services, and the provision of free housing.
The changes the Government is making in this field are aimed at creating a simple and convenient digital environment where people will be able to order nearly all significant services digitally. This is one of the tasks that need to be solved in order to achieve the national development goals set by the President. Residents of various Russian regions will no longer need to waste time and energy visiting government agencies. They will also face fewer health risks during the pandemic.
We need to improve the road infrastructure throughout Russia to implement new projects, including tourism projects. We are working on this under the Transport System Development state programme.
High-quality roads are needed to ensure that ambulances arrive on time, school buses can safely take students to classes, and companies can quickly deliver goods between the regions of our huge country.
Over the next two years, the Government will allocate an additional 100 billion roubles to 84 regions for these purposes.
About 3,000 kilometres of motorways will be brought up to standard; about twenty major road infrastructure projects will be implemented in the regions, including to build and repair bridges and large transport interchanges.
We continue
to prepare for the Russian Investment Forum, scheduled to be held on 17-19
February 2022 at the Sirius federal territory. Its main goal is to create
effective mechanisms to increase investor interest in the Russian economy and
to attract capital for new promising regional projects. Consequently, it will
become possible to more quickly and effectively accomplish the tasks, set by
the President, while achieving national development goals.
I am asking my deputies, the supervisors of federal districts, to interact actively with the heads of regions in order to fill business and exhibition programmes with real content.
