Construction of roads to be performed under concession contracts

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ At its meeting on Monday, the cabinet obliged D.Erdenebat, the Minister of Industry, to establish concession contracts with companies on constructing auto roads. According to the contracts, which will be signed on a "construction-and-transmission" term, a 98km road between Altai and Darvi, 129.4km road between Bayankhongor-Altai, 167km cross-road in Tosontsengel (Zavkhan aimag), and a 15.8km road between Mandal soum-Zuunkharaa (Selenge aimag) will be run. An order was given to J.Erdenebat, the Minister Finance, to place money in the state budget for investing the works reflected in the concession contracts. In frames of the 2012-2014 governmental goal to connect centers of all aimags to the UB city, the auto roads have been already put into use going from the city to Bayankhongor, Omnogobi, Khovsgol, Dundgobi, Khentii, Dornogobi, Zamyn-Uud soum (Dornogobi) and Sukhbaatar aimags. Same roads from other provinces are being run.