Enterprises and agencies of Tajikistan do not pay for electricity

In Tajikistan, several ministries and large companies owe millions of somoni to the company “Barki Tojik” and have not settled their debts for years.

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The head of the Open Joint Stock Company “Electricity Distribution Networks,” Ivaylo Stoyanov, informed journalists at a press conference on February 13 that several ministries and large companies owe significant amounts to “Barki Tojik” but do not pay their bills. At the press conference, Stoyanov presented a list of ministries, state agencies, and large manufacturing enterprises in the country that owe millions of somoni for consumed electricity.

The head of the electricity networks reported that the total amount of debt of enterprises and companies for consumed electricity in Tajikistan over the past two years amounted to 534 million somoni (over 52 million dollars).

According to him, some enterprises, ministries, and state agencies in the country do not pay their electricity bills on time and in full.

The largest debtor is the aluminum company TALCO, which, according to the head of the electricity networks, has not paid electricity bills amounting to over 97.6 million somoni (96 million dollars) in the past two years. The total debt of this company, taking into account previous years, amounted to 487 million somoni (47 million dollars).

Another major debtor is the agency for land reclamation and irrigation under the government of Tajikistan, whose debt has increased by 172 million somoni over the past two years, with the total debt of the agency amounting to 460 million somoni (about 45 million dollars), Stoyanov reported.

The head of the Open Joint Stock Company “Electricity Distribution Networks” also reported at the press conference that over the past two years, the debt of the population to “Barki Tojik” has increased and reached 139 million somoni (13 million dollars). According to him, the total debt of the residents of the country for electricity consumption amounted to almost 1.5 billion somoni (144 million dollars).

The total debt of all consumers over the years has already reached about 3.7 billion somoni (355 million dollars).

Thus, according to this data, the debt of just one enterprise and one state agency accounts for about 30 percent of the total debt for electricity consumption.