On June 30 at a republican meeting held by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov the Minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services Irek Faizullin said that the federal centre had set the task to provide the amount of commissioned housing at the rate of 1 m² per person by 2020.

The meeting was traditionally held in a video conference format and broadcast online (www.prav.tatarstan.ru).

According to Irek Faizullin, 3 mln m² of housing will be constructed in republic by 2016. As for June 29, 1 mln 157,5 thousand m² of housing have been built in Tatarstan.

By results of the first six months, 25 municipalities have fulfilled 50 per cent of the plan.

Within the framework of the programme aimed at improvement of veterans’ living conditions, 5 houses with total area of 4 thousand 205 m² have been commissioned in Tatarstan within the last two weeks. 102 houses are under construction.

Head of the Department for Construction, Transport, Housing-Communal and Roads Services Ildar Sibgatullin reported on construction of village clubs in 2013. By and large, 46 village clubs are to be constructed this year. Besides, work on arranging multipurpose centres for rendering state and municipal services is underway.

Director of the State Housing Fund Talgat Abdullin told about implementation of the social mortgage programme.