(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, January 10. Tajikistan
has earmarked 2.993 billion somoni ($274.35 million) for budgetary
expenditures in the transport and communications sector for 2025,
according to the Law on the State Budget for 2025, Trend reports.
The budget sets aside 51.6 billion somoni ($4.7 billion) for
total expenditures. Of this amount, approximately 24 billion somoni
($2.1 billion), or over 46 percent of total expenditures, will be
allocated to social sectors.
Meanwhile, the revenue side of the state budget is projected to
reach 49.6 billion somoni ($4.5 billion), which is a 15.4 percent
increase, or 6.6 billion somoni ($604.9 million), compared to the
previous year.
According to the Ministry of Transport, Tajikistan will continue
implementing key infrastructure projects in 2025, including the
reconstruction of highways, bridge construction, and the
establishment of avalanche protection corridors.
In the first half of 2025, the construction of a road section
between the Kalaikhumb–Vanj–Rushan border in the Gorno-Badakhshan
Autonomous Region is expected to be completed.
Additionally, in the village of Barsem, also in
Gorno-Badakhshan, the construction of 4.5 kilometers of road, 550
meters of avalanche protection corridors, an 82-meter bridge over
the Shorf River, and a 200-meter bridge over the Gund River will be
finished.
52 kilometers of republican and internationally significant
roads in the Sugd Region will also undergo restoration.
Plans for 2025 also include the construction of fuel stations,
maintenance centers, shops, campsites, and hotels, which will help
improve transport services across the country.
In further development, the Dangara-Guliston road reconstruction
project is set to begin in 2025, with plans to transform it into a
model "green corridor." This project will introduce innovative
methods for creating environmentally friendly roads.
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