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Turchak called the number of applications for free gas connection

About 652,000 applications were received from citizens for free connection of households to gas. Andrey Turchak, Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia party, stated this at a meeting of the federal headquarters for gasification.

“To date, 652,000 applications have been submitted by citizens, with an increase of about 100,000 over the past month. Half a million applications have been accepted,” Turchak said.

According to him, more than 220,000 connection contracts have already been concluded. At the same time, about 100 thousand households have gas supplied to the border of the site. Moreover, the average tariff for laying a pipe in a section is about 43 thousand rubles, and the cost of equipment is an average of 59 thousand rubles.

He also added that in the near future 13 more regions will decide to support a number of categories of citizens in the social gasification.

In June 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on free delivery of gas to sites. You can apply for social gasification on the public services portal, through MFC branches and on the websites of gasification operators.

At the end of October, Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin said that the number of applications for free connection of households to gas under the post-gasification program reached almost 400 thousand. According to him, up to 3 million households in Russia will be able to connect natural gas as part of post-gasification.

Turchak called the number of applications for free gas connection