Deputy Yakubovsky called for attracting private investment in the funeral sector
Alexander Yakubovsky, a member of the State Duma Committee on Construction, Housing and Communal Services, spoke about the situation with the shortage of cemeteries and crematoria in Russia. In a conversation with Lenta.ru, the deputy called for changing legislation in the funeral sector, thus helping to attract private investment into it.
Earlier, Svetlana Razvorotneva, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Construction, Housing and Communal Services, announced a critical shortage of cemeteries and crematoria in Russia.
“In my opinion, it is necessary to accept as an axiom: if in some area we can attract private funds in addition to budget funds, we must do this, ideally, attracting extra-budgetary funds for every budget ruble. In this case, we are also talking about outdated legislation, which, as Razvorotneva’s colleague rightly notes, has not been finalized or changed since 1996, while the attitude of Russians to the burial procedure has changed significantly and the size of urban agglomerations has grown exponentially,” Yakubovsky noted.
The absence of external players leads to a lack of competition, which negatively affects the price level and quality of services provided. Therefore, of course, we need to work on this problem in terms of improving legislation.
In August it was reported that in the Krasnodar Territory a former public adviser to the head of Sochi on financial and economic issues and two of his accomplices were detained in the case of the illegal sale of places in local cemeteries.
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