Members of the Standing Committee on the Economy were not
very enthusiastic about  a provision to
allot between MNT60 million and MNT100 million to governors and the citizens’
representatives’ assemblies to each of the 329 districts in the country when
they recently discussed a working group’s proposals on revising the present
year’s budget.  D.Terbishdagva (MPRP) and
Ya.Batsuuri (DP) both felt this would serve little purpose, and Z.Altai (Ind)
wondered if the committee was the place to discuss and determine such little
things as an individual district’s likely expanses on petrol and fodder.

In recent days, there have been suggestions from many
quarters to give local authorities more financial power.