DUSHANBE, May 5, 2010, Asia-Plus — A May 3 meeting of the Dushanbe mayor’s office discussed issues related to problems facing the education sector in the Tajik capital and installation of new electronic electricity meters in Dushanbe.
Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor’s office, said the meeting also discussed a municipal redevelopment plan that includes the construction of modern buildings in the city and demolition of the Barakat bazaar in the center of the city.
In this connection, the mayor’s office announces a tender for construction of a new city market at the Surkhob Street. 3.7 hectares have already been allotted for construction of the new market.
Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadaid Ubaidulloyev ordered his deputy Abduhomid Sheraliyev to provide merchants running shops at the Barakat bazaar with places at other Dushanbe’s bazaars within the next two weeks.
The mayor also ordered to provide with apartments residents of the apartment building, 67 Roudaki Avenue, which will also be demolished as part of the municipal redevelopment plan, the spokesman said.
We will recall that Abduvali Komilov, the head of the Agency for Construction and Architecture, told reporters on April 19 that the Barakat market and the Justice Ministry’s pretrial detention facility located in the center in Dushanbe will be demolished in the near future. According to him, the authorities are seeking to move the market and the pretrial detention facility as part of the municipal redevelopment plan. A theatre and a new building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be constructed in the place of the Barakat market, while the market will be moved to other area of Dushanbe, Komilov said.
