ULAN BATOR, Oct. 21 (Mon-Info)--According to press service of Mongolian government,
during cabinet meeting held saturday,
Mongoilan government approved loan
scheme proposed by Asian Development Bank towards improvement of living
condition of slum residents of Ulanbator, capital of Mongolia.
About half of
Mongolia’s 2.9 million people or 1.3 million people live in the capital. About
40 percent of the Ulaanbaatar residents live in apartment blocks with proper
utility and infrastructure services and 60 percent live in slums known as Ger districts
without proper utility and infrastructure services and roads. Most of the low
income households live in the slums.
More and more impoverished rural migrants
arrive in Ulanbator everyday and
contributes to expanding poverty of slums. According to official statistics, population
of Ulanbator increased by 6 percent every year as of during last 10 years.
Ger residents
have less access to basic services such as education, health care, water and
sanitation, information, jobs and other development opportunities than their
apartment residents.
ADB proposed
to lend $ 224 million dollars towards improvement of the slums by building
infrastructure such as water and heating pipelines and roads. This project is expected to be implemented in 3 stages for 10 year period. Mongolian
government will also invest $ 96 million dollars for this project as local counterpart.
Now the the
loan scheme proposed by ADB will have to be approved by the parliament.
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