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Metropolitan government announced its intention to raise tariffs on ritual services provided by public utilities Kiev crematorium and special plant PKBO (manages all the city graveyard). A draft orders KCSA Leonid Chernovetsky going CONSIGNEE in early October. An analysis of the document, the average cost of services of both manual will grow by 22%. In Kiev crematorium least more expensive design contract order for the funeral (on 5,8% to 8,25 UAH.) But most of all - in a standard cremation coffin (by 37,1%, to 610 UAH.).

cheapest service PKBO (drafting contract order to organize and conduct the funeral) will soar from the current 30.68 to 39 UAH. and the most expensive (installation of gravestones weighing over 1 ton) - from 897.45 to 1146 UAH.

worth noting that this is the third this year, officials attempt to raise tariffs on ritual services. The first City Council has taken in early 2009, raising them in a few times. But then the decision contested city prosecutor's office, and prices returned to their previous level. In early June, officials were able to increase rates only for the services of the crematorium. Due to the fact that they have not increased since 2004, and for five years, the cost of gas used now grown to eight times, tariffs were raised immediately to 118%. But it seems they were not enough. The current price hike in the SU funeral services KCSA explain the necessity to bring the salaries of workers in the sector in line with the legislation of Ukraine: from July 1, 2009 BP decided to raise the minimum wage from 605 to 669 UAH. This is confirmed by the head of the SU pricing KCSA Basil Yastrubinsky. Both utility companies have applied our calculations to increase the cost of services, and we rechecks them - he said.

Opponents metropolitan authorities argue that such an explanation sounds logical only for KP Kiev crematorium, while cpetskombinat is actually bankrupt and all the work on urban churchyard long ago have several officials close to the KCSA private entities that receive and profit from this . As previously reported, last year reduced the PKBO leadership positions almost all the directors of 29 cemeteries, leaving their offices to the private business as well as archeologists dismissed the graves, to employ them in the same private structures. In fact, the market is monopolized by two companies: Santa Maria and Raft-Company, one of which has unlimited access to the business of installing the monuments, and the other specializes in the remaining work on the churchyard. As a result of the harmonious fusion of bureaucratic and business interests in the capital have started to provide tariffied services that are not displayed in the orders City Hall. For example, to bury the deceased on the Berkovtsah or Forest, you must pay the concreting area around the future pit.

Lots of them were identified at the time of the city council for the disposal of the privileged categories of citizens. Now, enterprising dealers openly sell these places. People were offering to pay for the so-called pedestal, and in case of refusal to simply referto the North Cemetery, located in 60 km from Kiev. And if in the early years of the basement required 4.8 ths. (for single or double seat), but now - 7,5-15 thousand - explains one of the private funeral business, who wished to remain anonymous. - Naturally, the money ends up not in the city treasury, but in the pockets of speculators and leadership PKBO.

Deputy Head of the BYuT faction in Kyivrada Yuri Dmitruk, who headed the parliamentary commission of inquiry into irregularities in the ritual area, reported that special plant entered into over a dozen agreements, under which delegated almost all of its own functions to private entities. Already it is clear that the lion's share of funds from the provision of funeral services to the cemetery are private traders, which means that tariffs are largely lifted for them, - he said.

Agrees with him and the head of State Committee of Kiev Vitaly apostles, who declared that he did not intend to harmonize the proposed KCSA prices. Because of the artificial monopoly market in the capital, they are far too high, resulting in Kiev residents are increasingly forced to bury relatives in cemeteries in the surrounding villages. Adds to the high profitability of monopoly, I do not intend to, - he concluded.

Dmitri Markov

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