Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) – Under the chairmanship of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, a video conference meeting was held on 28 June to summarize and discuss new tasks and proposals in the field of youth policy.

At the beginning of the meeting, attention was drawn to the efficiency and scale of the work being carried out. Over the past seven years, more than 100 laws and regulations affecting youth have been adopted, and more than 200 benefits have been provided to them.

Over 151 thousand young people took advantage of the opportunity of educational loans alone. Payment for the contracts of 110 thousand students from low-income families was provided.

Through the El-Yurt Umidi Foundation, 50 young people graduated from the most prestigious universities in the USA and Great Britain. Currently, the number of our compatriots studying there has exceeded 200. In total, 110 thousand of our young people are receiving education abroad.

Thanks to the introduction of the Presidential Schools Assessment System in 500 schools, the level of knowledge acquisition increased from 53 to 60 percent in one year. This system will be introduced in another thousand schools from the new school year.

This year, more than 14 thousand students graduated from schools with gold and silver medals. The number of medals won at the Big Five international Olympiads has doubled over the past four years.

Thanks to loans issued under Family Entrepreneurship programs, 1 million young people were employed. 1,200 projects were implemented in 205 youth industrial zones. Currently, 1,500 young entrepreneurs have businesses with a turnover exceeding a million dollars.

The head of our state noted that young people have a lot of knowledge and new ideas, and the conditions for them will further expand.

In particular, the professions of the “fourth industrial revolution” are extremely important for the accelerated development of our country. To this end, a new system will be introduced to increase the interest of young people in professions related to physics, chemistry, biology, technology, engineering and mathematics. In 73 academic lyceums at universities, the International Baccalaureate and A-Level programs will be introduced as an experiment. Students who receive certificates in these programs will be admitted to universities without exams on a contract basis.

Students who score more than 75 percent on the SAT test will be admitted to universities in our country on a grant basis.

Conditions will be created for young people with disabilities to take exams for a national certificate in a foreign language on a computer.

Despite the fact that our young people always achieve high results in the theoretical part of international olympiads, they receive lower scores in laboratory exercises. Therefore, a Center for Preparation for the Olympiads, equipped with special laboratories, will be created under the Agency of Presidential Schools. The national team to participate in international Olympiads will be trained in this center. Qualified scientists and foreign experts in each subject will be involved.

Subjects of the first and second years of higher education will be integrated with technical schools. Young people who graduate from technical schools with good grades will be issued a diploma that corresponds to the international classification. They will be given the opportunity to continue their studies at the university from the second or third year on a contract basis. Young people with proper professional qualifications and two years of work experience will be accepted into universities on a contract basis on the recommendation of enterprises.

Now a single online platform will be created for laboratories belonging to universities, ministries and enterprises. Such scientific centers will be created at the Tashkent Technical University, Samarkand and Urgench State Universities.

Equipment, components and chemical reagents necessary for the research of young scientists will be exempt from duties.

Currently, more than 50 thousand young people work in the field of information technology as self-employed. There will be great opportunities for such young people who add value and export services.

In particular, from  August, such self-employed IT specialists will receive the status of resident of the IT park. They will be exempt from all taxes for three years. The IT park will provide them with a “social card” for access to medical, sports and office services.

Particular attention will be paid to training young people in professions that generate high incomes and increasing the number of projects with high added value. The Youth Entrepreneurship Fund under the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade will be transferred to the system of the Agency for Youth Affairs. The fund will support all stages of the project from idea to finished business.Training centers for professions of the “fourth industrial revolution” will be created in 14 districts.

The fund will construct buildings in youth industrial zones in the regions and provide them to young people to implement high-value-added projects on the terms of an “industrial mortgage” for a period of seven years, while no payments will be charged in the first year.

In each region, a “Creative Industry Park” will be created in one of the “Barkamol Avlod” centers; they will be provided with the benefits provided for residents of the IT park. These places will become platforms for communication between young entrepreneurs, science and business. 

The fund will provide loans of up to 100 million soums for three years for young people’s startups.

About 50 thousand mobile trading points will be organized on main roads, which will be rented out to young people. For the first six months, young people will be exempt from rent and taxes.

As you know, at the beginning of the year, 4 million young people in difficult conditions were assigned to khokims, ministers and heads of government organizations. As a result of targeted work, the problems of 420 thousand young people who faced difficulties in life were solved, and 65 thousand young people were employed. 1 million young people in need of special attention have started playing sports.

Thus, it was emphasized that it is necessary to guide difficult teenagers, young people on the verge of divorce and prone to crime on the right path.

Gyms and stadiums of schools, colleges and universities, swimming pools and libraries will be open to the youth of the mahalla. It has also been announced that sports competitions, creative competitions and film days will be held during the summer season.

Job fairs will be organized with measures taken to employ 350 thousand young people. It is also possible to provide employment for 100 thousand young people on construction sites.

Supporting girls and improving their conditions will remain a focus. For women who find themselves in difficult conditions, one-room social houses will be built in all regions. They will be able to live in these houses for free for three years until they get a job and get back on their feet.

Girls who cannot go to work for health reasons will be provided with home-based or remote work. In addition, students with children under three years of age will be given the opportunity to receive distance education.

The meeting continued in the form of an open dialogue. Young people from different regions of our country, as well as those studying abroad, expressed their opinions and suggestions.

Responsible persons are instructed to summarize the initiatives and include them in the draft decree.

– We will continue to use all our strengths and opportunities to ensure that young people find a worthy place in life. “You are the hope and support of our country, the creators of our future,” the President said in conclusion.