On January 17, Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev was reported on new approaches to ensuring population’s employment and poverty reduction.
This year it is planned to ensure employment of 5.2 million Uzbek citizens and bring 1.5 million people out of poverty. For the first time 60 districts and cities will become territories free of poverty and unemployment.
Jointly with mahalla (neighborhood) bankers it is planned to ensure employment for 1.5 million people and attract more than 2 million citizens to businesses through credit resources for small business projects.
Based on best foreign practices, new approaches to poverty reduction will be introduced in 32 areas. In particular, solar power plants with a total capacity of 107 megawatts will be built in 300 mahallas, and members of low-income families will be hired to operate them on a cooperative basis.
In 123 districts, low-income citizens will be offered work on the creation of forest and nursery lands on 20 thousand hectares, as well as the cultivation of medicinal plants. They will be paid a subsidy for every 100 trees planted.
In places with tourism potential it is planned to open guest houses and catering outlets, and at a number of post offices – e-commerce centers where representatives of low-income families will also get jobs.
The president reiterated that 2025 will be decisive in reducing unemployment and poverty, and gave instructions to ensure a systematic and targeted approach to the implementation of the planned measures.
The Ministry of Employment and Poverty Reduction is tasked with strictly monitoring the implementation of these tasks. Each initiative and activity will be entered into an electronic platform with subsequent verification of the jobs created.
