DUSHANBE , August 2, Asia-Plus - This year, Tajikistan ’s Tax and Law Institute in Dushanbe and its branch in Khujand are permitted to accept totaling 960 freshmen.

Mr. Nooriddin Saidov, the head of the department for higher educational institutions of the Ministry of Education, has told Asia-Plus the institute’s branch in Khujand is permitted to accept 50 freshmen (25 freshmen for the Taxation Department and 25 freshmen for Department of Management) this year.   

“The Tax and Law Institute in Dushanbe is permitted to accept 910 freshmen for studying this year,” Mr. Saidov said, noting that two new departments – “Applied Informatics” and “Statistics” – will be opened at the Institute this year.  

According to him, the Ministry of Education plans to rename the Institute of Tax and Law.  “The government has approved this decision and present the ministry is working out a draft resolution on this subject,” Mr. Saidov said.  

In the meantime, Abdusamad Mulloyev, the deputy head of the licensing department of the Ministry of Education, has noted that a board meeting of the Ministry of Education that was held last Friday made a decision to close the Department of Law at the Institute of Tax and Law.   

As it had been reported earlier, attestation carried out at the Institute of tax and Law in April-May this year recorded numerous instances of violation of law and other shortcomings. More than 4,000 students have been expelled from Tajikistan ’s Tax and Law Institute since the beginning of this year; some 95 percent of them were expelled for non-attendance at the institute.  In January this year, 23,548 students studied at Tajik Tax and Law Institute, while according to the license given to the institute, some 3,500 students should study at it.