KHOROG, April 27, 2009, Asia-Plus — Not only regional and republican but also a number of Russian companies attended a job fair that was held in Khorog, the capital of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (Gorno Badakhshan or GBAO) on April 25.
According to Ms. Nigina Dildorbekova, the chairperson of the GBAO branch of the Interior Ministry migration service, construction companies from Russia’s Krasnodar region and the city of Sochi, Sodeystviye, Meridian and Shcherbinskya, attended the fair.
In all, companies participating in the fair offered some 2,000 jobs. More than 350 people visited the fair and 50 of them were placed in seasonal works in the Russian Federation.
In the meantime, the head of Badakhshonkhorijakor (GBAO state company dealing with external labor migration issues) Qamchibek Nasillobekov said in an interview with Asia-Plus that Badakhshonkhorjakor had sent 28 residents of the region for seasonal works to the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan over the first three months of this year under contracts singed with a number of Russian and Kazakh companies. In 2009, 706 residents of Gorno Badakhshan were sent for seasonal works outside the country through Badakhshonkhorijakor, Nasillobekov said.
