In the System of Housing They Overprice Services with No Reason, the SCC

10.06.2010 17:27
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Chairman of the State Control Committee, Zenon Lomat, stated that the organizations of housing and communal services overpriced their services. The head of the committee stressed that the communal services were annually reported the rates to reduce the cost of services, but it constantly grew on the contrary.

According to Zenon Lomat, besides objective factors such as rising of prices for energy, building materials, this situation is also affected by subjective factors. Among them there are baseless relating of the expanses to production costs, inefficient use and overuse of resources, overprice of works performed by outside organizations, violations of wages, BelTA informs.

The head of the SCC noted that the basic number of citizens’ appeals to his office dealt specifically with the activities of organizations of housing and communal services. In this regard, inspectors have checked the communal services of all regions of the country, including Minsk.

«The people complain of poor condition of housing stock, of the low-quality and long-term repair of houses, poor condition of yards, non-following water temperature and heat regime in apartments, of the failure of other social standards. There are many questions on payments for municipal services», Zenon Lomat said.

In the system of housing and communal services there is no one responsible for violations, Lomat

Among the identified shortcomings there are also facts of formalism, red tape, indifference to the people’s needs from the part of the heads of housing and communal services. However, as the SCC head noted, «the system of housing and communal services has bulky apparatus, a lot of managers, but there’s no one responsible».

The inspectors had specific questions caused by cases of misuse of funds supposed to be spent on complete overhaul of housing.

Zenon Lomat give an example, calling it outrageous, when during housing overhaul at Housing Repair and Maintenance Association № 2  of Frunzensky district of Minsk there was overpriced the value of the completed works. Also it was discovered that this organization used more than 70 million rubles, assigned for housing overhaul by citizens, for its own purposes. Instead of repair they bought computers, teapots, tickets for the money.

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