Alexander Shadrikov urged Tatarstan citizens to go on a sanitary and ecological two-month
On April 1, a sanitary and ecological two-month period will start in Tatarstan. All residents of the republic are invited to clean up the accumulated garbage over the winter. This was announced to journalists at a briefing in Kazan by the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexander Shadrikov.
"The sanitary two-month period is our Tatarstan eco-marathon of cleanliness. Ecological clean-ups will start in every corner of our republic from April 1. This includes the elimination of landfills, planting trees, cleaning the banks," he said.
The Speaker noted that the staff of the Ministry is ready to start fulfilling the tasks and hard work. Each of the 126 inspectors accounts for more than 500 square kilometers of controlled territory.
The main purpose of the two-month period is the sanitary cleaning of the territories of settlements, the identification and elimination of piles, garbage dumps accumulated during the winter period and bringing the territories into proper ecological and sanitary-epidemiological condition after the snow cover.
The head of the environmental protection agency noted that the main focus of the reform carried out in recent years in the control and supervisory activities is aimed at the fact that the violation should be stopped at the stage of "conception".
"You all know that for the second year we have been working within the framework of the moratorium, while we continue to focus specifically on the supervisory activities of our department. So, in 2022, the Ministry sent 2,888 warnings about the inadmissibility of violating mandatory requirements, conducted 51 preventive visits, 1,220 consultations," Alexander Shadrikov told reporters.
Despite the moratorium, the harshest measures of influence are also applied against malicious violators. Last year, the Ministry's employees filed 348 claims – almost every second (149) was filed on the fact of harming the environment. Administrative fines and damages totaling 29,602 thousand rubles were collected.
For gross violations of the law, 16 criminal cases were initiated based on materials submitted to law enforcement agencies.