The press service of the department said that the deputy head of the Ministry of Emergencies, Igor Kobzev, proposed this initiative after a meeting of the public council with the participation of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights under the President of Russia, Anna Kuznetsova.

“To exclude cases of gas and power outages to large families and families in socially difficult situations due to existing debts to resource-supplying organizations to pay for the services provided,” the TASS ministry quotes.

Earlier, the head of the commission on housing and communal services, construction and roads of the Public Chamber of Russia, Igor Shpector, commenting on the NSN’s proposal of the Communist Party to ban public heating and water supply for debts to the population, called for the provision of benefits to utility people in need.