DUSHANBE
, April 20, Asia-Plus – Further more than 100 enterprises are supposed to be privatized in
Tajikistan
before the end of the year, Iqbolsho Salimov, Deputy Chairman of State Committee for Management of State-owned Property, announced at a briefing in
Dushanbe
on April 20.
According to him, more than 15 million Somonis are expected to be made from sale of those enterprises.
Mr. Salimov says that in January-March this year, 41 real estate properties have been privatized in
Tajikistan
and three open joint-stock companies have been set up on the basis of republican enterprises.
An overall volume of funds made from privatization of these properties and transferred to the country’s national budget since the beginning of the year has amounted to more than 9.6 million Somonis, which is 638,000 Somonis more compared to the same period of 2005, according to Iqbolsho Salimov.
“Since the beginning of privatization, 8,876 real estate properties have been privatized in the country,” Iqbolsho Salimov said, noting that of a total number of the privatized enterprises, 5,918 or 78 percent have to date been operational.
In the territorial cross section the proportion of operating privatized enterprises were:
Dushanbe
– 1596 enterprises or 98 percent are operational; Sughd province – 1900 enterprises or 81 percent; Khatlon province – 1247 enterprises or 56 percent; Gorno Badakhshan – 105 enterprises or 64 percent; and districts subordinate to the center – 1070 enterprises or 91 percent.
During a news conference it was also noted that national budget annually received more than 1.6 million Somonis from lease of the state-owned properties. Over the first quarter of the year,
Tajikistan
’s national budget has received 300,000 Somonis from lease of the state-owned properties, which is 59,000 Somonis more than in January-March 2005.
