On January 15, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a videoconference on the priority tasks of organizing a new “mahallabay” work system and ensuring employment in 2022.

Last year the gross domestic product of Uzbekistan increased by 7.4 percent thanks to active reforms, development of entrepreneurship and work in the context of mahallas. 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 Mahalla Development. Therefore, fundamental changes should take place in all mahallas this year”, the Head of the state said.

Since the beginning of the year, 9,309 assistant hokims have started work. The activities of the Agency for Mahallabay and Entrepreneurship Development, which is responsible for this system, have been established, all organizational issues have been resolved.

Further measures that need to be taken to create a mahallabay system of work were discussed at the meeting.

In particular, the personal responsibility of the relevant responsible persons for organizing the activities of assistant hokims, reducing poverty and developing entrepreneurship in mahallas was noted.

It was noted that assistants to hokims 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.

Activities 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 dehkan farming.

“Significant loans and subsidies are allocated for training and entrepreneurial activity of the population. However, it should be recognized that many residents are not aware of them”, the President said.  – Therefore, the assistants of the hokims should work with the population every day, bring the existing conditions to the citizens, poverty reduction, teaching entrepreneurship and agriculture.

10 trillion UZS of concessional loans and 2.5 trillion UZS of subsidies will be allocated for these purposes this year (an average of 1.3 billion UZS for each mahalla).

It was emphasized that the main attention should be paid to providing families with the necessary equipment and working tools for the development of entrepreneurship and agriculture in mahallas.

80 thousand hectares of cultivated 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 cultivated land, to attract leading entrepreneurs to engage the population in poultry farming, sheep breeding, goat breeding, rabbit breeding, fish farming and beekeeping, with the participation of entrepreneurs to provide mahallas with incubators, to create a system of guaranteed purchase of harvested agricultural products.

“Everyone should understand for themselves: hokim’s assistants are representatives of the President in the mahalla. Their main task is to develop entrepreneurship, create jobs, reduce poverty and increase the incomes of families in their mahalla.

To do this, the hokim’s assistants must be free from any bureaucracy, no hokim or manager should call them to meetings, “load” them with various reports. We just need to create conditions for them”, Shavkat Mirziyoyev said.

The task was also set to study the situation at places based on the appeals of the population and pay special attention to improving the appearance and social situation of the mahallas.

This work will begin, first of all, with a mahalla with a relatively difficult economic and social situation.

In this regard, it was noted that priority attention should be paid to improving the infrastructure in such mahallas, repairing and building drinking water supply networks, kindergartens, schools, medical institutions, cultural centers, in short, 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.

UzA