Ildar Khalikov holds meeting of working group on improving quality of providing public services electronically in Tatarstan

Summing up preliminary results on the work to provide public, municipal and socially significant services electronically Khalikov noted that Tatarstan continues to be the leader in Russia, but more intensive development is needed.

“At the same time, we still move at a very slow pace in a number of areas, especially in the housing and utilities sector, with the total amount of payment made online being very insignificant,” he said. “But of more concern is the fact that we have a very serious difference between municipalities, from 2-5 per cent to 40-60 per cent. Locating in one republic, being of an equal status and equally remote from larger cities, rural areas demonstrate very different results. The causes of this fact need to be analyzed,” he continued.

Tatarstan Prime Minister added that while originally the project was the initiative of Tatarstan now it has been spread throughout the country. Russian President has signed a decree, allowing 70 per cent of the Russian residents to be provided public services electronically by 2018.

“Providing services electronically is not only done for people’s convenience. An entire set of tasks is solved here: fighting corruption, ensuring authorities’ transparency, and many more. Implementing something new, however, is always difficult. I do hope that today’s discussion will give new impetus to this very important effort,” Khalikov added.