President signed the Additional measures to reduce state participation in the economy Decree on April 19 ordering to move the executive authorities to the New Tashkent city.
He instructed the coordination council for the New Tashkent city project, which is headed by Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, to make a proposal within three months on the relocation of government agencies, the effective use of their administrative buildings and the use of funds from their sale for the construction of administrative buildings in New Tashkent.
In March 2023, the president laid a capsule, marking the launch of the New Tashkent city project.
He underscored that government agencies, universities and other facilities would move to the New City. On the site of the buildings where ministries and departments are now located, it is planned to open hotels, trade and service facilities. “Tashkent will turn into a modern center of tourism and business,” the head of state said then.
In September last year, Shavkat Mirziyoyev approved the combined project of Tashkent and New Tashkent, developed by the British Cross Works. “Yes, we call it New Tashkent, but tomorrow it should also update old Tashkent. They must become one blood, one artery,” said the head of the construction management company, Davronjon Adilov.
President stated that it was important to start the New Tashkent project, otherwise in five years it would be “impossible to live in the capital.”
In early April, Shavkat Mirziyoyev launched the construction of the first facilities in New Tashkent: the campuses of Yangi Uzbekistan University and Tashkent State Pedagogical University, the National Library, the National Theater and others.
