DUSHANBE, August 24, 2010, Asia-Plus — The Dushanbe mayor has sacked the Qariyai Bolo bazaar director and reprimanded a deputy mayor and the Sakhovat bazaar director for failing to curb unfounded rise in prices of wheat flour at the bazaar.
Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev yesterday held a meeting to discuss issues related to curbing prices of basic food products in the city during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor’s office, said.
Chairman of the commission of Dushanbe’s legislature (Majlis), Izatullo Sattori, reported on this subject.
The mayor demanded at the meeting that the existing shortcomings regarding unfounded rise in prices of the basic food products at the city’s bazaars should be removed in the shortest time.
V. Davlatov was relieved of his post of the director of Dushanbe’s Qariyai Bolo bazaar for failing to implement the mayor’s office decision on lowering prices of the basic food products during the holy month of Ramadan.
The Deputy Dushanbe Mayor, Ms. Sanovabr Rahimova, and the director of Dushanbe’s Sakhovat bazaar, B. Abdulloyev, were reprimanded for failing to curb rise in prices of wheat flour at the bazaar. The head of the Dushanbe veterinary control service, B. Qarmishev, and the head of the Dushanbe center for sanitary and epidemiological supervision, Z. Afghonov, were also reprimanded for failing to ensure proper sanitary control at the city’s bazaars and allowing low-quality meat to come to market.
The aforementioned people were given two days to remove the existing shortcomings and warned that more strict measures would be taken against them if they fail to implement their duties in future.
On completion of the meeting, the mayor received 48 Dushanbe residents whose problems have not been solved by chairpersons of Dusahnbe’s districts and deputy mayors.
We will recall that the Dushanbe mayor’s office decided on August 7 that basic food products should be sold at lower prices during the holy month of Ramadan, from August 11 to September 10. Thus, the price of one kilogram of beef should not be higher than 18 somoni, the price of one kilogram of mutton – 19 somoni, the price for a 50-kilogram sack of grade 1 wheat flour should be sold for not more that 90 somoni. Prices of vegetable oil, milk, eggs, rice, sugar, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, carrots, cabbages, grapes, and melon crops should be brought down by 15-20 percent during Ramadan.
The Dushanbe mayor ordered to exempt farmers selling their products at Dushanbe’s bazaars without resellers as well as entrepreneurs trading in essential goods from all fees or to cut them by 50 percent during the holy month of Ramadan.
