DUSHANBE, April 18, 2011, Asia-Plus –The board (Shuro) of Tajikistan’s lower chamber (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament considered a bill on holding parents responsible for their children’s action and education at an April 18 meeting, presided over by the Majlisi Namoyandagon speaker Shukurjon Zuhurov.
Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon, says MPs expressed confidence that adoption of the parental responsibility law would promote improvement of education of the rising generation.
The board also considered amendments to the country’s laws on the national budget for 2011 and standard acts.
We will recall that the bill on parental responsibilities in the upbringing of their children was worked out last year on president’s initiative. After detailed discussion at an October 29 government session the bill was returned as requiring improvement. The government considered the bill repeatedly at a December 14, 2010 meeting. Addressing the meeting, President Rahmon offered to submit the bill for a nationwide discussion. More than 8,000 proposals have reportedly been offered over three and half months of the nationwide discussion and a special working group has held 15 meetings over the report period. Jumakhon Davlatov, State Advisor to the President for Legal Issues, says the group has thoroughly studied all the proposals received and many of them have been included in the final edition of the law.
