10.04.2023

The projects that failed to win “Participatory Budgeting” program will also receive funding. The corresponding instruction was given by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to responsible officials at the meeting held on April 10.

A targeted work to improve the social infrastructure based on the requests and proposals of the population is being carried out in Uzbekistan.

As part of participatory budgeting, 57 trillion Uzbek soums was allocated to 9.5 thousand makhallas over the past three years. At the expense of these funds, internal roads, kindergartens, schools and hospitals in 3.5 thousand makhallas have been repaired. Drinking water supply and sewerage networks have been improved in 1.19 thousand makhallas, modern landscaping was completed in 452 makhallas.

Based on the principle “In the name of human dignity”, the amount of funds allocated to makhallas has reached 25 trillion Uzbek soums this year. In particular, 8 trillion Uzbek soums is provided as part of the “Participatory Budgeting”.

The first season of this program has just finished. A report on its results and future work was presented at the meeting.

In the first season, citizens voted for 34,000 project proposals to improve roads, water and electricity networks, schools, kindergartens and hospitals. According to the voting results, 1,666 projects were recognized as winners.

It is noteworthy that the activity of the population has increased significantly. For instance, 1.2 million people participated in the voting in 2021, whereas this year the number of participants exceeded 16 million in the first season alone. All makhallas of the country participated in the “Participatory Budgeting” program with their projects for the first time.

Uzbek President noted that along with the high-quality implementation of winning projects, it is necessary to pay attention to projects that have not won the program.

“For example, more than 2 thousand people voted for 1,300 projects, but they could not win. It turns out that the issues raised by more than 4 million people will remain unsolved. Therefore, we should support these good initiatives of the population”, the President has said.

It was decided to allocate an additional 1 trillion 300 billion Uzbek soums for the projects that received at least 2 thousand votes, but did not win the vote.

It is also important that 34,000 projects that participated in the “Participatory Budgeting” program are a ready-made basis for the formation of budgets for the next year. Thus, more than a thousand proposals have been received for the repair of medical institutions in makhallas, over 5 thousand proposals for providing schools with desks and computers.

The President noted the need for taking into account funding for those projects that received more than 1.5 thousand votes in the “Participatory Budgeting” when forming the budget for 2024.