The Ministry of Ecology completed the car fleet and was highly appraised by the President of the Republic

Today, the car fleet of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan was completed with new cars. All in all, the Ministry took title to 17 vehicles manufactured in Russia including 8 Niva cars, 8 Lada Granta cars and a Gazel-based mobile laboratory.

Keys to new vehicles were presented to the Ministry’s inspectors by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov. The solemn ceremony was held in Kazan on the square adjacent to the Big Concert Hall n.a. Salikh Saydashev. In front of the President, the experts decided to immediately test the laboratory: an express analysis of the air was made in the online mode. The laboratory will be used for monitoring purposes in South-western districts of the Republic.

In his welcoming speech, the President Rustam Minnikhanov highly appraised professional qualities of the team of the Ministry and the services operating in this system, and he also expressed his gratitude.

“Today we are making the next step to ensure ecological safety of the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan, and it is very important since our republic is very well developed from the industrial point of view, and only operative and timely work and control measures will provide for assurance of the safety of ecological situations”, acknowledged the President Minikhanov.

The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Farid Abdulganiev, expressed his gratitude to the President for high appraisal of the Ministry’s activity and new vehicles. “Car fleet renewal will allow to operatively pull the duty on the territory of the Republic”, said the Minister. He acknowledged that mobile laboratories play a special role in the area of activity of large industrial companies, when it is essential to determine the source of upset of the ecological balance and implement the relevant measures very quickly, let’s say in hot pursuit. Mobile laboratories approved themselves very well also in the course of the preparation and holding of the Universiade in 2013, as well as during the World Aquatics Championship in 2015.

“It is of special importance that using this equipment we can operatively reveal violations of the legislation. It is our top-priority and direct responsibility to protect the Law in the part of nature protection”, said Farid Abdulganiev.

Press Service of the Ministry