Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — In the near future, a pilot project will be launched in three cities of Uzbekistan aimed at providing transportation services for children with visual impairments and musculoskeletal disorders who study in specialized schools and boarding institutions. This was reported by the information and legal portal Norma.

As part of the initiative, approved by a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers, the project aims to improve the educational conditions for children with special needs by expanding their access to transportation services.

The project will commence on April 1, 2025, in Tashkent, Andijan, and Samarkand, and by the end of the year, it will be gradually implemented in other cities across the country. The National Agency for Social Protection of the Population under the President has been tasked with organizing the pilot launch in the designated cities, followed by its expansion to other regions of the republic.

Socially significant transportation services will be provided with the involvement of aggregators that offer interactive client-matching services to passenger transport operators in the non-route taxi sector. Transportation requests will be processed through mobile applications by entrepreneurs providing these services.

To ensure effective administration of the project, a registry of socially significant transportation service users will be created within the Unified National Social Protection Information System. The registry will include information on students requiring transportation services, as well as their legal representatives—parents, adoptive parents, guardians, custodians, and caregivers.

Transportation will be provided for children diagnosed with the following conditions: cerebral palsy (CP) of levels III, IV, and V according to the GMFCS classification, severe (F72) and profound (F73) intellectual disabilities, childhood autism with behavioral disorders and uncontrolled movement syndrome, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, spina bifida with lower paraplegia, blindness (amebiasis) (H54.1), congenital defects such as anophthalmia, optic nerve atrophy (H47.2), severe hypoplasia of the optic disc and macula, retinopathy of prematurity, and retinal detachment.

The introduction of this project will create more comfortable transportation conditions for children with special needs and facilitate their access to educational institutions.