The leadership of Tajikistan for the past ten years diligently camped this world’s all haves’ doorstep, filling their crocodile tears about the plight of their people, who freeze and languish in the dark long cold nights due to seasonal power shortages, begging for new portions of donor aid.

Meanwhile, Barki Tojik traditionally introduced in early October restrictions on electricity supply in winter throughout Tajikistan.

Again people get electricity at best 4-5 hours a day, and in some areas - not more than one hour per day. As in previous years, schools, kindergartens, clinics and hospitals as well as the home of the Tajik population, were without electricity for most of the day.

Again, Tajik children and old people were under threat of freezing.

However, the country has a \"sacred cow\", which received uninterrupted electricity at any time of day and year, regardless of whether the payment for consumed energy. Easy to guess that it is about Talco, which consumes a day 18 million kW / h, or 46% of the electricity produced in the country about 40 million kW / h per day.

The decision on the placement of the company, related to one of the dirtiest types of production, it the very Tajikistan was taken during the Soviet period, despite the fact that Tajikistan is completely absent of raw materials for the production of aluminum.

The issue of providing the plant with alumina was supposed to decide by supplies from the European part of the Soviet Union and imports from friendly African countries.

Today, when the Soviet state and friendly relations with African states long gone, the Talco continues to operate contrary to economic logic and the huge damage caused to the plant environment as Tajikistan and neighboring countries, polluting air, soil and water, thousands of tons of highly toxic emissions.

One of the key factors enabling TALCO stay afloat is a very discounted rate at which the plant receives electricity. It is several times lower than the tariffs established for other industrial users and even people.

If the leadership of Tajikistan really cares the distress, in which due to disconnection of electricity annually to the population of the country live, it was enough to stop the supply of electricity for Talco during even the coldest 4-5 months, which would free up 2.2-2.7 billion kW / h of electricity.

Is that a lot? Let us explain with examples. With a 24-hour power supply one family consumes an average monthly order of 170 kW/h, and the whole population - less than 200 million kW/h. The entire social sector (schools, hospitals, maternity homes, kindergartens) takes an average 10-15 million kW/h per month.

Thus, within four months for social institutions and the population 860 million kW/h of electricity is enough. That is the electricity released by Talco is more than enough to cover the three times this necessity and to eliminate the deficit in the energy system of the country in the winter months to ensure smooth operation of medical and educational institutions and abandon limiting electricity and rolling blackouts that turned into a nightmare for simple population.

Tajik children could be born, to be educated and grow under electric lights, not with candles and kerosene lamps. There would not be hospitals closed for the winter, newborns, freezing in maternity home and many other tragedies that are demonstrated to visiting foreign experts in support of theses about the lack of electricity. Thousands of small businesses across the country would be able to continue to operate in winter, creating jobs and sources of income in the country, also involving the right to the economy private investment.

Loss of a winter stop the Talco can easily compensate in the warm season by supplying surplus power to the plant, resulting in the Tajik energy system in the warm season.

However, it is clear that it will never be allowed. There are not a dozen reasons why you can not stop production at Talco, will be given the astronomical amount of costs that would be required to convert the aluminum plant in seasonal patterns of exploitation.

Although the only reason for this state of affairs - the unwillingness of those from the Tajik establishment to waive at least part of their income from the activity for the health of Talco and the lives of ordinary citizens of Tajikistan. It\'s a long time no secret that the Tajik authorities by Talco annually improve their own financial conditions at 200-250 million dollars, which regularly comes to bank accounts abroad. To do this, the plant uses a extortionate tolling system, artificially low price of exported aluminum and inflate the cost of imported raw materials and components. A junk price for electricity set for Talco plays a leading role in this mechanism of personal enrichment.

This is, apparently, the bitter fate of the Tajik people that come from year to year to suffer because of the lack of electricity in the winter and languish in poverty just because of the excessive greed of the country\'s leadership? (Source: Uzbekistan Today newspaper)