Overview
- The MPP caucus approved lifting teachers’ base salary to ₮2.8 million effective November 1, pending administrative registration and budget enactment.
- The teachers’ union said the nationwide strike will end 24 hours after the agreement is officially registered by the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Protection, clearing the way for classes to resume.
- To fund the raise, budget leaders identified roughly ₮1.1 trillion in savings by trimming recurrent expenses and cutting or delaying parts of capital spending.
- The negotiated framework charts a path to ₮3.5 million in 2027, with officials emphasizing that registration and future budgets must formalize those steps.
- Separately, Ulaanbaatar reports winter-preparedness work about 95% complete and advances a $206.5 million waste-to-energy plant and Tuül water complex studies, while CO detector rollouts continue and the statistics office verifies census data by phone from 70151212 through December 15.