On March 3 at a session of Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov and heads of municipal regions (city districts) signed agreements on achieving planned results of assessment of activity of local self-government in 2014-2016.

Opening the session, Ildar Khalikov told about the necessity to form a unified monitoring system for assessing activity of ministries, departments and local governments. According to him, the system is aimed at reducing the inequality between territories and improving quality of life.

“Today we have signed agreements which are the important mechanism to achieve the set goals. The indicators, which local governments undertake to attain, are specified in the agreements,” Ildar Khalikov pointed out.

Tatarstan Prime Minister also reported that in 2013 the average performance level of target indicators by municipal regions made 75.7 per cent, which is 9.3 per cent more compared to 2012.

Ildar Khalikov said that performance results will be summed up every quarter. At the same time, he said that the number of indicators should be reduced and the regional leadership is looking forward to receiving appropriate proposals from municipal regions.