Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan will introduce a scholarship of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan for young people.

This is envisaged by the decree of the President of Uzbekistan “On the state program for the implementation of the strategy of Actions in five priority areas of development of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2017-2021 in the “Year of support for youth and health promotion”.

According to the document, the President’s scholarship will be received by 200 young people who have scored the maximum points in entrance exams to higher educational institutions.

The Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education, together with the Ministry of Finance and the State Testing Center, until 1 April 2021, was instructed to develop a procedure for introducing a scholarship from the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

They should also form a unified electronic register, providing open data on the persons who scored points in the entrance exams to higher educational institutions.

The head of Uzbekistan also instructed to increase the number of state scholarships for higher education by 25 percent and the number of state scholarships for girls from needy families by 2 times, as well as introduce a system for allocating a state scholarship to private higher educational institutions for training specialists.