Cabinet meeting news in brief
Politics
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ At its regular meeting on July 24,
the cabinet made the following decisions:
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To fund mission expenses, incentives, and
other necessary costs for the emergency staff who worked in disaster areas in
the first half of 2019 from the Government reserve fund. In the first six
months of this year, 2608 disasters and accidents took 66 lives, injured
34, and killed 25 thousand heads of livestock, resulting in direct losses of
MNT 5.5 billion. 17 thousand emergency and other relevant officials saved the lives
of 684 persons and assets worth MNT 30 billion.
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To submit the revised draft Law on Government
Special Funds to the Parliament after approving it. Presently, there are 29
Government special funds. It is expected that reorganization of the funds that
account for about 30 percent of the total state budget expenditure will improve
the fiscal discipline and bring social and economic benefits.