DUSHANBE, July 27, 2011, Asia-Plus -- 56 investment projects for a total amount of US$732.9 million are currently being implemented in Tajikistan, according to the State Committee for Investments and State-owned Property Management  (GosKomInvest).

The projects reportedly cover eleven different spheres of the country’s economy.  “Loans account for some 62 percent of the investment project portfolio, grants account for more than 28 percent, while the government’s share in these funds is more than seven percent and the share of Barqi Tojik (electricity suppliers) and Tojiktransgaz (natural-gas distributor) amounts to 2.3 percent,” the source in GosKomInvest said.

According to him, 557 million somoni have been drawn over the first six months of this year for implementation of the investment projects.

GosKomInvest reportedly does not yet have information about foreign investments attracted for development of the country’s economy over the report period.  Meanwhile, foreign investments attracted over the first quarter of this year have amounted to 61 million U.S. dollars, including US$32 million of loans attracted by companies and organizations and US$29 million of foreign direct investments (FDIs).