Dushanbe mayor has signed a decree on demolition of one of the oldest bazaars in the Tajik capital.
Dushanbe Mayor Rustam Emomali signed the decree on demolition of the Shohmansour Bazaar on October 9 but it was posted on the mayor’s office’s website only on October 11.
As it had been reported earlier, Dushanbe’s Shohmansour Bazaar, locally known as Zeleyony Bazar (Green Bazaar), has been closed down this week.
The Shohmansour Bazaar director Mashrab Qarayev reportedly told merchants running their shops at the bazaar that they should move to the Mehrgon Bazaar (formerly Poytakht-90) until the end of this week.
Qarayev said new places had already been prepared for merchants at the Mehrgon Bazaar and they should sign contracts with Mehrgon owners.
The Poytakht-90 Shopping Complex was opened in September 2014. The Dushanbe budget allocated 202.6 million somoni (equivalent to some 40 million U.S. dollars) for construction of that complex.
