SAMARA, Volga Region, December 15 (AVN) - The RF Defence Ministry committee started to work in the Volga military district on Friday, a source in the district headquarters told the Military News Agency.
The committee is headed by Lieutenant-General Viktor Aistov, first deputy chief of Armed Forces housing service.
The committee is going to analyse the situation with building and providing flats for servicemen of the district as well as for officers families and warrant officers of the central command which are located in the district. Currently more than 10,000 servicemen are on a waiting list to improve housing conditions. Many servicemen will be dismissed under conditions of the military reform.
The scale of houses building in the district does not help to solve that problem, the source said. As many as five block of flats for servicemen will be completed by the end of 2000 with only two of them, located in Samara and Ulyanovsk, for the district servicemen. The block of flats in Perm is being built for the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) servicemen and two houses in Samara and Engels are for Air Force servicemen. As many as 459 flats are planned to be constructed in the district for the first quarter of 2001.
The committee will work for three days and plans to study the possibilities of boosting housing construction and work out the corresponding suggestions to report to Igor Sergeyev, RF defence minister.