The powers of the Orsha and Polotsk City Councils of Deputies have been transferred to the District Councils

The powers of the Orsha and Polotsk city councils of deputies have been transferred to the district councils, a BELTA correspondent was informed at the councils of deputies.

In accordance with Decree No. 27 of January 14, 2013 "On the merger of districts and cities of regional subordination of the Republic of Belarus having a common administrative center," a reorganization of city and district councils of deputies has taken place with their merger into one structure. The Orsha and Polotsk city councils of deputies have been liquidated, and their powers have been transferred to the district councils of deputies. Deputies from city districts will continue to work with the same rights in the district councils.

Currently, 64 deputies work in the Orsha District Council of Deputies, 29 of whom were elected from city districts. It is headed by the Chairman of the Orsha District Council of Deputies, Stanislav Koshkin. In an interview with a BELTA correspondent, he emphasized that the main task of the deputy corps is to work with the population – to solve the pressing problems of the residents of the district and the city.

The newly elected Chairman of the Polotsk District Council of Deputies, Iosif Gribovich, reported that the council includes 61 deputies, 31 of whom were deputies of the city council. According to him, the merged deputy corps will focus its efforts on the prompt, targeted resolution of issues of public services, and will comprehensively address issues of socio-economic development of the region.

Decree No. 27 provides for the merger of the Orsha district and Orsha, the Polotsk district and Polotsk, in order to improve the public administration system and ensure the comprehensive development of administrative-territorial units of the basic territorial level.