DUSHANBE, July 2, 2013, Asia-Plus – All butcher’s shops in Dushanbe are expected to be equipped with CCTV cameras within a week.

“Such a decision has been made after some butchers have ignored the mayor’s office recommendation to sell meat at a price not higher than 36.00 somoni per kilogram,” Sayfullo Amonov, the head of the Dushanbe directorate for economic development and trade, told Asia-Plus in an interview.

According to him, members of the public commission will supervise activities of the butcher’s through CCTV cameras.

We will recall that by Dushanbe mayor’s decision all butcher’s shops operating in Dushanbe have been exempted from communal payments during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.  Communal payments for butchers reportedly average some 900 somoni per month. 

Senior representatives of the Dushanbe mayor’s office met with butchers on July 1 and a protocol was signed, under which meat will be sold in Dushanbe at a price not higher than 36.00 somoni per kilogram.

The Dushanbe mayor’s office is ready to exempt from communal payments all vendors selling essential goods at Dushanbe’s markets during Ramadan at reduced prices