Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 15 January, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a videoconference on the priority tasks of organizing a new mahallabay work system and ensuring employment in 2022.
As a result of active reforms, development of entrepreneurship and work in the context of mahallas, last year the gross domestic product of our country increased by 7.4 percent. About 100,000 new entrepreneurs have started their activities in the regions. The number of self-employed increased by 700 thousand and reached 1.2 million people.
- We declared 2022 the Year of Ensuring Human Interests and Development of the Mahalla. Therefore, fundamental changes should take place in all mahallas this year, the head of state said.
Since the beginning of the year, 9,309 assistant khokims have started work. The activities of the Agency for the Work of Mahallabai and Entrepreneurship Development, which is responsible for this system, have been established, all organizational issues have been resolved.
The meeting discussed further measures that need to be taken to create a mahallabay system of work.
In particular, the personal responsibility of the relevant responsible persons for organizing the activities of assistant khokims, reducing poverty and developing entrepreneurship in mahallas is indicated.
It was noted that assistants to khokims should conduct studies in their mahallas within the framework of the “iron”, “women’s” and “youth” notebooks and update the data of the social register.
Then work will be organized to train families who want to do their own business, but do not have sufficient conditions for this, to provide them with soft loans, subsidies or land plots for dekhkan farming.
- Significant loans and subsidies are allocated for education and entrepreneurial activity of the population. However, it should be recognized that many local residents do not know about them, the President said. “Therefore, assistants to khokims must work with the population every day, bring the existing conditions to the attention of citizens, remove them from poverty, teaching entrepreneurship and agriculture.
For these purposes, 10 trillion soums of soft loans and 2.5 trillion soums of subsidies will be allocated this year (an average of 1.3 billion soums for each mahalla).
It was emphasized that special attention should be paid to providing families with the necessary equipment and working tools for the development of entrepreneurship and agriculture in mahallas.
The 80,000 hectares of sown land planned for allocation this year will be provided primarily to families of the above category. Due to this, it will be possible to provide a permanent source of income for 500 thousand people.
Responsible persons were instructed to conduct a critical discussion of the work on the allocation of sown lands, to attract leading entrepreneurs to engage in poultry, sheep, goat, rabbit, fish and bee breeding, to provide mahallas with incubators with the participation of entrepreneurs, to create a system of guaranteed purchase of harvested agricultural products.
- Everyone should understand for themselves: the khokim’s assistants are representatives of the President in the mahalla. Their main task is to develop entrepreneurship, create jobs, reduce poverty and increase family incomes in their mahallas.
For this, it is necessary that the khokim’s assistants be free from any bureaucracy, no khokim or leader should call them to meetings, "load" them with various reports. It is only necessary to create conditions for them, said Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
The meeting also set the task to study the situation on the ground based on the requests of the population and pay special attention to improving the appearance and social situation of mahallas.
This work will begin, first of all, with mahallas with a relatively difficult economic and social situation.
In this regard, it was noted that priority should be given to improving the infrastructure in such mahallas, repairing and building drinking water supply networks, kindergartens, schools, medical institutions, cultural centers, in a word, improving the level and quality of people’s lives.
At the meeting, the heads of industries and regions reported on their plans for a new system of work.
