Kozak said, what is needed Olympics: it will give jobs

The main anti-crisis measure in social policy - to save jobs, said on Tuesday during a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak. On this Wednesday writes newspaper GZT.ru ".

"At this aim, and federal programs, and investment funds, the Foundation for the reform of housing and communal services. Even the Olympics - it is primarily the creation of conditions for the preservation of jobs," - said Dmitry Kozak.

According to him, the subsidies that are allocated from the Fund to promote the reform of housing and communal services, will maintain in 2009 to 1.5 million jobs, as approved by the regional projects funded by Investfonda establish this year to 20 thousand jobs. Dmitry Kozak said that the construction for the Winter Olympics facilities should be employed about 12 thousand people. He noted that, referring to the Olympics in the context of job creation, has in mind not only the Krasnodar region, but also other Russian regions.

"I wrote to all heads of subjects of the federation order to ensure that they organized their construction company," - said vice-premier. According to Dmitry Kozak, the proposals and a timetable for the tender were sent even to those construction companies, where there is a problem.

However, Deputy Prime Minister announced the number of retained and newly created seats in particular are unlikely to greatly reduce the number of unemployed, said the newspaper. Now only the officially registered unemployed in the employment services more than 1.7 million people. It is estimated Rosstat, the total number of unemployed is about 6 million people. There are the so-called hidden unemployment, where people are sent on leave without or with the minimum wage, not terminated their employment contract. At the end of January of such citizens, observed Rostruda was about 200 thousand people.

Economical Olympics

According to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, the new version of the budget-2009 the cost of building sports and infrastructure facilities for the Olympics will be 15% less than planned. Ability to save a post design estimates.

"Only four palaces, which prepared the project estimates and an examination revealed inflated at 7.5 billion rubles", - said Kozak. He further reported that, in general, last year's savings for all projects that were presented at amounted to 300 billion rubles.

In doing so, Kozak, at least in the public part of its communication with the prime minister, has not said how much resources (not only public but also private), planned in preparation for the Olympics. This confirmed the Auditor Chamber Alexander Piskunov. He believes that the preliminary estimates of costs that would be needed to prepare for the Olympics, is still not ready. Complete calculations are planned by the end of February.