The Governor of the Capital City and Mayor of Ulaanbaatar, E.Bat-Uul and the Team Leader, ADB PPTA for MFF on Ulaanbaatar Urban Services and Ger Areas Development Investment Program, Bharat Dahiya met residents of Bayanlkhoshuu, suburb ger district on Thursday April 11th. The Ulaanbaatar City Governor`s Office signed a cooperation memorandum with Asian Development Bank for the re-planning and development of the ger district areas of 7, 8, 9, 10, 28 khoroos, covering a total 162 hectares in Bayankhoshuu with a population of 200,000. 

The Asian Development Bank introduced the project to re-plan and develop the ger district to citizens who gathered during the meeting.

The project team developed a 10 year plan that will be run in three main phases to develop Bayankhoshuu.

The Asian Development Bank supported the largest re-construction with 500 million US dollars finance. It is estimated that the first two phases will require 240 million US dollars. The second phase of the project will be started in 2015 after the first phase of construction is completed in 2013-2018.

The project team has planned to build a 2.73 km long sewage system in order to expand it to the sub-center and a 6 km infrastructure line along the road and two new steamers this year.

Two business and development shopping malls with parking are also planned to be built in Bayankhoshuu.

The project coordinators stated that citizens` participation and effort is important to start such a huge project.

Residents in Bayankhoshuu held several meetings with project coordinators to share opinions and information about the re-planning of the ger district.

The Ulaanbaatar Urban Services and Ger Areas Development Investment Program offered three choices to residents of the Bayankhoshuu ger district:

Stay in their ger yard paying the expenses for the engineering of infrastructure delivery; pay expenses for the engineering infrastructure while selling some parts of their land to the re-planning project; or work with the project coordinator to replace property or land with an apartment.

Parliament will discuss the project and whether or not to grant the right to the coordinator to develop the project for the re-planning of the ger district.