Source: Onoodor    Date: April 10, 2010

Addressing a special Government meeting on Friday, the last such before the Spring session of Parliament, Prime Minister S.Batbold listed his principal achievements in the 155 days since assuming his present office. These include human resource development, approval of the budget, declaring 2010 as the year of business environment reforms, distribution of money from the Human Development Fund, arranging the Mongolian Economic Forum, and initiating policy reforms in the education, financial markets and infrastructure sectors.
The Prime Minister said the Tavan Tolgoi issue was now the priority. Talking about the new railway, he said an east-west route linking Tavan Tolgoi to Choibalsan via Sainshand will best serve national interests. “This road will open the possibility to develop broad economic relationships in Northeast Asia as well as provide guaranteed infrastructure for coal, copper, uranium and oil sectors in the Gobi region,” he said.
Mr. Batbold said the national program on a "Smokeless Ulaanbaatar" will be implemented soon, as will be the one on "100,000 household apartments". He himself will head the committees charged with overseeing implementation of the program on pollution. In the other program, 75,000 apartments are planned to be built in 35 Ger district locations. About 70 percent of metropolitan citizens will then live in apartments.