DUSHANBE, April 25, Asia-Plus — The government is considering the issue of turning the State Unitary Enterprise Tojikcement (Dushanbe cement plant) into joint-stock company.
Speaking to journalists in Dushanbe on April 24, Farrukh Hamraliyev, the head of the State Committee for Investments and Management of State-owned Property, noted that the committee had suggested that the term of privatization should be extended and the list of enterprises to be privatized should be reviewed.
“At present we are considering the issue of turning Tojikcement into joint-stock company, which had previously not been on the list of enterprises to be privatized.”
Besides, by government’s resolution a number of large enterprises, including planning institutions subordinate to the Agency for Construction and Architecture, have been removed from the privatization list, Hamraliyev said.
According to the committee, 456 large and medium-sized enterprises are to be privatized in the country under the last plan of privatization of medium-sized and large enterprises as well as the natural monopolies entities designed for 2003-2007. However, only 419 companies have been privatized so far; 68 of them have been soled by tenders.
Over the fist three months of this year, 24 enterprises have been privatized, the committee head said.
