The Orikhivska AH of the Zaporizhzhya Oblast introduced a social card of the Orikhivska AH resident that will enable control over the amount of compensation for transportation of privileged categories of the hromada population by commuter routes of road and rail transport. Appropriate decision was made by AH deputies at the end of 2017. The card will be in circulation from 1 February.

“Over 9 months of 2017, the Zaporizhzhya Directorate of Railway Transportation of the regional branch of “Prydniprovska Zaliznytsya” of Ukrzaliznytsya PJSC provided compensation for the preferential transportation of citizens through the Orikhivska station and platform 242 (the Orikhivska hromada) for a total of UAH 185,734. And this is just pertaining to the railway transport. Of course, these sums have raised doubts,” says Serhiy Herasymenko, head of the Orikhivska AH. “On average, based upon this calculation, 53 people enjoyed privileges per day. It was not taken into account that these people could be from another hromada and that not all categories have travel privileges. Therefore, we decided to introduce a social card, that will identify a privileged person from the Orikhivska hromada – it is more profitable and transparent.”

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