DUSHANBE, April 19, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan has worked out 10 large construction projects over the first three months of the year, Abduvali Komilov, the head of the Agency for Construction and Architecture, announced at news conference in Dushanbe today.
Among them are the projects for the construction of lyceum for talented children in Dushanbe, the branch of Tajik Teachers’ Training University in the Rasht district, educational buildings for Tajik National University, the Dushanbe airport terminal, and three nine-story residential buildings in Dushanbe.
“The residential buildings are planned to be put into exploitation by next Navrouz (March 2006)” the agency director said.
Komilov noted that that the agency has received 330 applications for constructing license over from the construction organizations over the report period. “We have considered all applications and granted 272 constructing licenses,” he said, noting that some companies do not satisfy requirements of the country’s law on architecture and town planning.
Over the same-three month period, the agency has issued rulings obligating a number of enterprises to pay totaling more than 60,000 somonis in fines for not fulfilling requirements of the construction legislation. “To date, the country’s budget has received 44,r00 somonis from this amount.”
Komilov also noted that they had imposed a fine of 490,000 somonis on Italy’s Codest International, which is building the Ismaili Center in Dushanbe, for breaking Tajikistan’s law on licensing. “Of this amount, they have paid 194 somonis and the company has been exempted from paying the remainder after application to the government of Tajikistan,” the agency director said.
