DUSHANBE, October 27, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Over the first nine months of this year, the country’s national budget has received 16.9 million somoni (equivalent to some $5 million) from privatization and lease of state-owned property, the head of the State Committee for Investments and State-owned Property (GosComInvest) Farrukh Hamraliyev said at a meeting with reporters in Dushanbe on October 24.     

In the meantime, the republican budget has received 10.8 million somoni (more than US$3.176 million) from privatization and lease of the republic-owned property (municipal property is not included), the GosComInvest head said.  

“The republican budget has received 2.1 million somoni from sale of state-owned shares, 5.5 million somoni from sale of the republic-owned real estate, 565,000 somoni from sale of vehicles, 2.47 million somoni from lease of the republic-owned property, and so forth,” Hamraliyev said.

Over the report period, 53 winners of investment tenders have invested 49 million somoni (equivalent to US$14.411 million) in the country’s economy and created 2,620 new jobs, he noted.  “The remaining 15 winners of the investment tenders have pledged to fulfill their obligations by the end of this year.”