QURGHON TEPPA, January 22, Asia-Plus - Two new secondary schools were built in the Bokhtar district of Khatlon last year.   

The Bokhtar chairman Abdulmoumin Ulfatov told Asia-Plus that four secondary schools in the district had been in a very poor state by the beginning of last year.  “Two of them were pulled down last year and new schools were built in the place of them due to funds provided by farming units,” the Bokhtar chairman said, adding that the remaining two schools are also to be pulled down soon.  The National Social Investment Fund of Tajikistan (NSIFT) has already provided funds for building new schools in place of them, according to Ulfatov.  

Dwelling on other issues of the district education sector, Ulfatov said that teachers in the district receive their wages regularly. 

The Bokhtar chairman added that schools in the district are  experiencing an acute shortage of teachers of a number subjects such the Russian language, chemistry, physics, etc.  According to him, Bokhtar now has 54 teaching vacancies. 

“Local authorities are trying to resolve this problem and provide the schools in the district with sufficient teachers,” said Ulfatov, “We have submitted to the government a list of young teachers for providing them with plots of land for construction of residential buildings.”

The district chairman also said that schools had been provided with 105 hectares of land each to run their subsidiary farming units.  A part of incomes from these subsidiary farms is spent for repairing the schools buildings, according to him.