DUSHANBE, November 24, 2014, Asia-Plus – A session of the Dushanbe legislature (Majlis), presided over by Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev, took place at the end of the last week.  

“The session participants included members of the Dushanbe legislature, senior representatives of the Dushanbe mayor’s office, relevant ministries and agencies as well as representatives of political parties,” Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor’s office, told Asia-Plus.

According to him First Deputy Dushanbe Mayor, Nasrullo Khairulloyev, reported on preparations for the winter.

Since the beginning of November, the city’s daily requirements in electricity have increased from 8-9 million kWh to 13-13.5 million kWh that has caused to accidents at some of Dushanbe’s substations.  

To-date, the city electricity networks have reportedly done only 75 percent of work to take adequate preparations for the winter and only 55 percent of the coal stock target has been reached so far.

Mayor Ubaidulloyev criticized his deputies Nasrullo Khairulloyev, Jamshed Mansourov, Nozim Hakimov and Ruqiya Qurbonova as well as heads of Dushanbe’s districts for failing to take adequate measures to take preparations for winter.

They were given twenty days to put the situation right, the spokesman said