DUSHANBE, September 19, 2008, Asia-Plus  -- A September 19 working meeting of the Dushanbe mayor’s office decided to set up public commissions for controlling activities of local markets, sanitary-epidemiologic situation in the city, as well as work of passenger transport services and provision of the population with electricity and natural gas. 

The commissions are expected to consist of members of the Dushanbe legislature (Majlis), representatives of mahalla (local community), relevant departments of the mayor’s office and clerics.  

Speaking at the meeting, Mayor Mahmadsaid said that municipal authorities’ efforts aimed at cutting prices of basic food products during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan had yielded good results.  “We hope the commissions’ work will help keep this tendency,” the mayor said.  

According to him, the price of one kilogram of beef in Dushanbe is currently 15-16 somoni, the price for a 50-kilogram sack of whet flour is 115-117 somoni, the price of one kilogram of potatoes is 1.5-1.7 somoni and the price of liter of vegetable oil is 6-7 somoni.   

On the closure of market Zarnisor in Dushanbe’s microrayon 102, the mayor said that the market had been closed for violation of the country’s legislation by its owners.  The market was closed on September 12.