Party Control in the Ministry

Abstract

First of all, a few figures characterizing the scale of the activity of our republic's Ministry of Local Industry. The branch has a work force numbered in the tens of thousands and 113 enterprises and associations. The output volume at the end of the Tenth Five-Year Plan was 785 million rubles. Two-thirds of its output is in the form of consumer goods: products made of metal and ceramics, furniture, and household chemical products. In other words, our sector of work is directly associated with Group ‘B’ branches, whose rapid growth, as noted at the October (1980) Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, is a task of paramount economic and political significance. The Basic Directions envisage approximately a 1.4-fold increase in the output volume of local industry. This naturally places a large measure of responsibility for the state of affairs in the republic's local industry on the Communists working in the ministry. We see our basic role as one of working together with social organizations to improve the activity of the apparatus directed toward further development of the branch, toward improving the quality and expanding the assortment of products.