Russian President Vladimir Putin prescribed to the government to trace the prices for raw materials and the cost of work when modernizing the Baikal Amur highway (BAM) and Transsib, follows from the document published on the Kremlin website. Instructions regarding controlling costs for megaproekt are given on the basis of a meeting with members of the government, which took place on July 7.
Cabinet must “monitor the formation of prices for major raw materials and materials used in the modernization and maintenance of the railway infrastructure of the Baikal Amur and Trans-Siberian Railway Railways, as well as the main types of work performed.” The Government must submit until October 15, and then report once every six months.
In late July, Vladimir Putin, in the video conference mode, launched the railway traffic on the second Baikal tunnel connecting the Irkutsk region and Buryatia. Construction began in 2014 as part of the modernization of Bam and Transsib.
At the beginning of last month, the Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said that more than a thousand prisoners were attracted to the work on the Eastern Polygon to implement a megaproject on the expansion of BAM and Transsib. In addition, the government intended to connect builders from Belarus, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.