Videoconference with municipalities of business support
9 July 2013, Tuesday
July 9, 2013 Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan - Head of Business Support Department Rustem Sibgatullin held video conference with municipalities on the implementation of the republic in 2013, state support programs for small and medium businesses. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Center for Entrepreneurship Support, created especially for the free business counseling on various issues, including participation in the programs of support and acceptance of applications for participation in the competition. Rustem Sibgatullin told the meeting about the results of the competition of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation for grants of the federal budget, which resulted in the size of co-financing of activities of the Republic of Tatarstan for the development of business in 2013 amounted to 1.17 billion rubles. "We need to correctly distribute the funds so that they are effectively invested in small and medium-sized businesses, and brought out the country," - said Rustem Sibgatullin. He also said that daily monitoring is conducted for applications in the context of municipalities.
As part of the program, the Minister visited the Arsky Industrial Park, where he got acquainted with the current activities and long-term plans of the residents. During the inspection of the production facilities, Midkhat Shagiakhmetov held a substantive discussion with the heads of enterprises on capacity expansion and improving the efficiency of using the existing infrastructure.
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