DUSHANBE, July 31, 2015, Asia-Plus – Emomali Rahmon has urged the government to speed up work on mitigating disaster effects in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).
According to the president’s official website, Rahmon noted this yesterday during an address to a meeting of regional administrators in the city of Khorog, the capital of Gorno Badakhshan.
The meeting participants included representatives of the government, senior representatives of local authorities, and heads of law enforcement and power-wielding structures.
Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Azim Ibrohim reportedly noted that all disaster-affected families had received extraordinary grants and work on mitigating the disaster effects was under way.
The meeting participants also heard the accounts by the head of the Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense under the Government of Tajikistan, Khairiddin Abdurahimov, and the head of the Agency for Management of State Material Reserves, Nourmahmad Ahmadov.
Speaking at the meeting, the head of state pointed to the necessity of speeding up work on mitigating the disaster effects in the region.
We will recall that mudslides and floods caused by melting glaciers have killed six people in the Vanj district.
Besides, severe mudflows triggered by glacial melt amid abnormally hot weather in the country affected the villages of Barsem, Berdibekobod and Kolkhozobod in the Shugnan district on July 16. The mudflows carrying with them the mass of slurry, huge rocks and uprooted trees formed a giant dam blocking the Ghund River and creating an artificial lake. Mudslides and floods destroyed dozens of residential buildings, trade and cultural facilities, electricity lines, and an irrigation system in the mentioned villages.
According to the government data, mudslides and floods destroyed 72 residential buildings in the Shugnan district. The families whose houses were destroyed were moved to a safer area and settled in a temporary tent camp.
Families, whose residential buildings were destroyed completely, received 10,000 somoni each and families, whose residential buildings were damaged martially, have received 6,000 somoni each.
