Jamoat

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Tajikistan is divided into four provinces, there is also a capital district that only includes the capital Dushanbe.

Jamoat ( Tajik ҷамоат , plural: ҷамоатҳо dschamoatho , from Arabic جماعة, DMG ǧamāʿa ) denotes an administrative unit in Tajikistan . It is the third highest administrative unit behind the province (wilojat) and the district (nohija). The jamoat thus roughly corresponds to the municipality. The next smallest administrative unit are the villages (deha).

distribution

In Tajikistan there are a total of 405 jamoats, which vary greatly in their population, from sparsely populated regions in the mountains of the country with a population of around 1000 to urban jamoats, such as the Jamoat Khujand , which has around 150,000 inhabitants.

The province of Sughd is divided into 105 jamoats, the so-called districts subordinate to the republic , which are administered directly by the central government from Dushanbe , also include 105 districts, in the province of Chatlon there are 151 jamoats and in the autonomous province of Berg-Badachshan in the east of the There are 44 jamoats in the country. As a separate district, the capital Dushanbe is no longer divided into jamoats.

Legal status

The jamoat is laid down in the 78th article of the Tajik Basic Law, where it is defined as an organ of self-government in a housing estate and a locality . The principle of subsidiarity is also laid down in the law.

Financial situation

Many jamoats, especially those in sparsely populated areas, have hardly any sources of income, so they are dependent on grants from the central government or other subsidies. As a result, the infrastructure is weak in many regions. Due to the dependence on funds from the higher administrative units or the central government, the mayors of the jamoats are often hardly perceived as such, since they have little power.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jamoat . In: TheFreeDictionary.com . ( thefreedictionary.com [accessed November 9, 2018]).
  2. ↑ List of Jamoats. July 16, 2011, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  3. ^ Tajikistan. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Vladimir Sgibnev: The Central Asian City . In: Central Asia Analyzes . No. 42 . Berlin.