According to the Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CES) under the Government of Tajikistan, last year’s natural disasters cost Tajikistan at 400-500 million U.S. dollars (USD). What we do to reduce these losses? Let’s see.
883 natural disasters were reported in Tajikistan last year, including 720 avalanches, 41 mudflows, 32 floods, 23 landslides, 33 earthquakes, 21 rockfalls and 13 squally winds. 31 people were reportedly killed in those natural disasters last year, including 23 people killed by avalanches.
In January last year alone, 17 people were killed by avalanches along the Dushanbe-Khujand highway.
Specialists point to the necessity of constructing fifty-five avalanche galleries along the highway. Construction of these galleries will cost Tajikistan at 51.1 million USD.
There are also needed other measures to reduce natural disaster losses. For example, the Committee for Emergency Situations has been saying for several years that it even does not have its own helicopter to carry search-and-rescue operations.
Tajikistan does not have money for this. But we always have funds (our own or borrowed) for not quite necessary expenses.
Thus, Tajikistan is currently spending dozens of millions of dollars on the following facilities:
