DUSHANBE, February 14, Asia-Plus  -- Turkmenistan has increased the supply of daily electrical power to Tajikistan from 3.5 million kWh to 5.9 million kWh, Asia-Plus has learned from Rashid Gulov, the deputy engineer-in-chief at Barqi Tojik power holding.   

According to him, Tajik Energy and Industries Minister Sherali Gul voiced the request for increasing the volume of electricity it currently supplies to Tajikistan at a meeting with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan on February 13.  He informed the Turkmen head of state of ongoing energy crisis in Tajikistan      

Gulov also noted that Tajikistan has received electricity supplies from Uzbekistan at the rate f 2 million kWh per day.  

We will recall that Mirodil Abdurazzakov, an official with the Uzbek Embassy in Dushanbe, announced on February 12 that Uzbekistan on February 11 resumed its electricity supplies to Tajikistan.  On February 11, the Uzbek electricity supplies resumed at a level of 1 million kWh and doubled on February 12.