The president has ordered the creation of a mayor's office for New Tashkent, with the city’s mayor to be appointed and dismissed by the head of state, according to a decree that took effect on Nov. 11.
Decree , dated Nov. 10, 2026, sets the mayor's office’s executive apparatus at 14 staff. It will include a first deputy mayor, two other deputies, an assistant, the presidential press service and an organizational and oversight group.
A total of 30 staff positions have been allocated for 16 subdivisions of state bodies and organizations in the city. They will be created within the existing overall staffing of the agencies concerned.
The mayor's office will operate until the relevant administrative-territorial unit is established. During that period, it and the state agencies’ subdivisions will have the right to make independent decisions, on matters that fall under the authority of the relevant bodies in Tashkent province and its districts, in areas given to the directorate for permanent use.
The mayor's office’s running costs will be paid from the state budget. It will be temporarily housed, rent-free, in the building of the former New Tashkent project office.
The Prosecutor General’s Office, the Ministries of Internal Affairs, Justice and Emergency Situations, and other law enforcement bodies have one month to set up their structures in the city.
The Cabinet of Ministers has 10 days to draw up organizational and technical measures for establishing the mayor's office, and three months to submit a proposal on New Tashkent’s administrative-territorial status.
