Chiefs of a number of military registration and enlistment offices have been reprimanded for failure to fulfill their duties properly.
Deputy Prime Minister, Azim Ibrohim, who was the head of the republican conscription commission, held a meeting on December 12 to review the results of the autumn conscription campaign that ended on November 31, a source in the government told Asia-Plus in an interview .
The vice-premier reportedly reprimanded chiefs of the military registration and enlistment offices of the cities of Khorog, Hisor, Khujand, Isfara and Vahdat as well as the districts of Rasht, Qubodiyon, Farkhor and Lakhsh.
They were reprimanded for failure to take adequate measures to ensure the fulfillment of their autumn conscription campaign targets, the source said.
The autumn conscription campaign is carried out from October 1 through November, and the draft affects able-bodied male citizens in the age bracket of 18 years old to 27 years old who are not members of the armed forces reserve.
The two-month-long effort seeking to enlist young men aged 18-27 for the two-year compulsory military service takes place twice a year, in the spring and in the autumn. According to the Ministry of Defense (MoD), every year, some 15,000-16,000 young Tajik men are drafted into the country’s armed forces.
Some sources say more than 600,000 young men in Tajikistan are eligible for military service, but some 150,000 of them have received draft deferments or are exempted from the military service and some 100,000 other conscript-age young Tajiks are outside the country in search of a living.
Young Tajiks can avoid or postpone military service if they are ill, studying at university, an only son, or if they have two children.
Tajikistan’s armed forces consist of Ground Forces, Mobile Forces (paratroopers of the armed forces of Tajikistan), Air Force and Air Defense Force.
