DUSHANBE, July 28, 2010, Asia-Plus -- Traffic surveillance cameras to be installed at central streets in Dushanbe by September next year, Minister of Transport and Communications Olim Boboyev told reporters in Dushanbe yesterday.

Transportation system will use video surveillance on streets on regulate traffic flows and keep track of any disturbances.

“This project will be implemented in the framework of the program, Automated Transportation Management System in Dushanbe,” said the minister, “A total cost of the project is 47 million U.S. dollars and the project will be implemented due to preferential loans from China, including a US$ million grant.”

According to him, Tajik Telecom (Tajikistan’s fixed-line telecommunications network) will execute the project.  “Some 150 people are currently taking training course to learn to operate the cameras,” Boboyev said.

He added the project also provided for working out an electronic map of the Tajik capital that would allow ensuring regularity of work of public transport in the city.