Over 1.03 trln. soums directed to construct, repair roads in Jan-Sep

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan directed 1.039 trillion soums to construction, capital and current repair of roads in general use in nine months of 2015, which rose by 32.4% year-on-year.

In line with the investment programme for 2015, it is planned to construct and reconstruct 141.6 km of automobile roads of general use. According to the contracts, the road works for 375.6 billion soums were carried out in nine months of 2015 and 93.7 km of automobile roads were reconstructed.

Enterprises of Uzavtoyul carried out capital repair works for 135.6 billion soums at automobile works on general international and state importance. About 63.3 km of automobile roads of general use were repaired.

The works on capital repair and exploitation for 42,654 km of automobile roads, which are part of Uzbek national automobile roads, continued. In nine months of 2015, some 431.7 billion soums were used.