Over 12m people attend hashar in Uzbekistan

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Over 12 million people participated at the general charity hashar (voluntary works), which was held in Uzbekistan on 15 March 2014.

General hashar was organized in line order of the Cabinet of Ministers from 6 March and held in all mahallas, cities, settlements, etc.

According to Public Charity Fund Mahalla, over 12 million people participated in hashar, including 8 million youth.

Some 28,000 hectares of land were cleaned up during hashar and 19,000 km of ditches were cleaned. Accomplishment works were conducted in villages, mahallas, enterprises, parks, etc.

Within hashar, some 9 million fruit and 7 million decorative trees were planted along with 10 million flowers.