Will additional funds be allocated to the school that has more than 1,500 votes in "OpenBudget"?

11:20 / 23.02.2024 2.72k

In 2023, we reported that additional funds will be allocated to finance projects related to the equipment of non-winning schools after collecting 1,500 votes.

Ahadbek Haydarov, the Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance, and Khushnudbek Khudoyberdiyev, a lawyer and blogger, clarified a number of questions that interested the employees of educational institutions participating in OpenBudget with their projects.

As we previously reported, according to the Law "On the State Budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan" in the "Initiative Budget" for the financing of projects related to equipment, which received more than 1500 votes, but were not declared winners It is planned to allocate additional funds to educational institutions.

That is, even if the educational institutions participating in "OpenBudget" collected more than 1500 votes, but were not declared winners, these educational institutions will be financed from these funds. Please note that the Law on the State Budget envisages the financing of projects related to the equipment of educational institutions only.

That is, if the educational institution participated in the construction of a building or other projects in "OpenBudget", funds will not be given for this. We repeat that these funds will only be used to finance equipment-related projects.

There have been many cases where this news published by the xalqtaliminfo.uz editorial office is false news. However, it is worth noting that the editors of xalqtaliminfo.uz will not publish false, unsubstantiated information. The reason is that this information was taken from the Law No. ORQ-886 "On the State Budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan" signed by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on December 25, 2023.

Also, the Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance, Ahadbek Haydarov, officially confirmed this information and collected 1500 votes in 2023 for equipping non-winning social sector organizations (kindergarten, school, hospital). funding of projects, for which the State budget of 2024 has provided about 200 billion soums.