DUSAHNBE, April 28, Asia-Plus - A total debt of the public and enterprises for electricity to “Barqi Tojik” (Tajik electric systems) open joint-stock holding company has amounted to 171 million Somonis (equivalent to some US$53.3 million) as of April 1 2006 , Sharifkhon Samiyev, head of the “Barqi Tojik” holding company, announced at a news conference in Dushanbe today.   

According to him, Tajik Aluminum Plant (TadAZ) is the largest debtor of the company, owing to Barqi Tojik 87 million Somonis.  “The public debt for electricity has amounted to 48 million Somonis as of April 2006,” the Barqi Tojik top manager said, adding that enterprises of the Ministry of Land Reclamation have owed 18 million Somonis, farming units have owed 6 million Somonis and the Dushanbe municipal waterworks “Vodokanal” has owed 2.8 million Somonis to Barqi Tojik as of April 1.