Instructions are given to support the initiatives of the population

Projects that failed to win in the "Initiative Budget" will also receive funding. The corresponding instruction was given by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the responsible persons at the meeting held today.

In our country, targeted work is being carried out to improve the social infrastructure on the basis of requests and proposals directly from the population itself.

Within the framework of initiative budgeting, 57 trillion soums have been allocated to 9.5 thousand mahallas over the past three years. At the expense of these funds, internal roads, kindergartens, schools and hospitals in 3.5 thousand mahallas have been repaired, drinking water supply and sewerage networks in 1.19 thousand mahallas have been improved, modern landscaping has been carried out in 452 mahallas.

Based on the principle of "In the name of human dignity", this year the amount of funds allocated to mahallas reached 25 trillion soums. In particular, within the framework of the "Initiative Budget" 8 trillion soums are provided.

The first season of this program has recently ended. A report on its results and upcoming work is presented at the meeting.

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

It is noteworthy that the activity of the population has increased significantly. For example, if 1.2 million people participated in the voting in 2021, this year the number of participants exceeded 16 million in the first season alone. Also, for the first time, all mahallas of the republic participated in the Initiative Budget program with their projects.

The Head of our state stressed that along with the high-quality implementation of the winning projects, it is necessary to pay attention to the losing projects.

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

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

It is also important that 34 thousand projects that participated in the Initiative Budget program represent a ready-made base for the formation of budgets for the next year. Thus, more than a thousand proposals were received for the repair of medical institutions in mahallas, more than 5 thousand proposals for providing schools with desks and computers.

The President stressed the need to take into account the financing of those projects that received more than 1.5 thousand votes in the "Initiative Budget" when forming the budget for 2024.