Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - On 28 May, a video conference was held under the chairmanship of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the construction and improvement of maintenance of multi-apartment housing.

In our country, large-scale work is being carried out to update the appearance of cities and villages, to create decent living conditions for the population. Over the past three years, housing for 155 thousand apartments with a total area of 41 million square meters has been commissioned. The number of apartment buildings has doubled.

With the advent of new houses, modern massifs, the relevance of their maintenance increases. According to surveys of the population, 35 percent of residents of apartment buildings are not satisfied with the services provided, and 65 percent noted that they do not feel the work of partnerships.

This is due to the fact that many partnerships are in dire financial straits. There is a low level of service and, consequently, trust in them. Despite the provided benefits, they cannot cope with the timely repayment of loans.

At the same time, there are numerous cases of ineffective use of funds in the field of housing and communal services, embezzlement of budget funds. In particular, over the past 2 years, about 100 officials of the sphere have been prosecuted for corruption crimes.

The meeting discussed priority tasks to improve the maintenance of apartment buildings and renew the housing stock.

It was noted that the maintenance of some areas in the regional centers, as well as in the cities of Nukus, Chirchik and Angren, will be transferred to qualified service managers as an experiment.

Rating assessment of these companies will be introduced. Companies with better service will receive more properties in the future. In all management service companies, round-the-clock application centers will be organized.

Another important problem is that in many cases, the liability of partnerships arises from an imbalance in the cost of services. From now on, the minimum set and standards of housing maintenance services will be approved by local kengashs in agreement with the population. At the same time, the territorial administration of ZhKO will have to substantiate the tariff parameters point by point by making a presentation of the planned works and services.

Low-income families on the social assistance register will receive compulsory housing maintenance subsidies.

The Ministry for Development of Information Technologies and Communications was instructed to launch a unified electronic billing platform for housing and communal services payments from 1 October 2021.

It is indicated that 3 thousand newly built apartment buildings are not provided with maintenance services, the need to create management companies for their maintenance is noted.

- If there are no good living conditions, there will be no peace of mind in the family, no productivity at work. I am most worried about low-quality projects. If we eliminate corruption factors in construction and strengthen control over people’s money in terms of their intended use, the result will be different, ”the head of state said.

This year, it is planned to renovate 212 and complete the repair of 456 two-storey houses that are in disrepair. In addition, 2.4 thousand apartment buildings are to be repaired this year, and 4.1 thousand houses in the next two years.

For this, a special fund will be created under the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services to finance the repair of houses. Its funds will be formed from the republican and local budgets in equal shares. This year, 220 billion soums will be allocated for these purposes, another 100 billion soums will be attracted from the funds of the population.

Thus, 30 percent of the cost of repairing apartment buildings will be carried out by the owners, the remaining 70 percent - at the expense of the fund.

The khokims of the regions were instructed to effectively organize renovation and repair work with the targeted use of these funds.

Special attention at the meeting was paid to the modernization of the heating system.

15 thousand apartment buildings are connected to district heating networks in cities. But 2 thousand kilometers of pipelines are in disrepair, and losses in the networks are on average 40 percent.

In this regard, the task was set to connect more than 2 thousand apartment buildings to the centralized heat supply by the end of the year, having completed the construction and reconstruction of 56 boiler houses, repairing 205 kilometers of networks.

- The purpose of the construction of new multi-storey buildings in the form of a whole array is to save energy resources and reduce infrastructure costs. However, neither the ministry nor the regions has developed a unified approach to this issue, - said Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

The importance of transferring housing to a modern heat supply model, attracting the private sector to this was noted.

This year, 183 new residential areas are being built. 185 kilometers of drinking water supply networks, 290 kilometers of sewerage, 130 kilometers of electricity networks and 110 kilometers of gas supply networks will be laid to them. This requires 415 billion soums and specific funding sources have already been identified.

Responsible persons were instructed to provide the arrays with infrastructure.

It was also noted that at least 3 thousand apartment buildings in densely populated areas with a high demand for housing will be built at the expense of the Asian Development Bank loan in the amount of $ 50 million.

Instructed to simplify the procedure and reduce the timing of granting subsidies for the payment of the initial payment for housing.

Work on landscaping and development of social infrastructure was also touched upon. This year, 18 trillion soums have been allocated to improve conditions in 7,794 villages and makhallas. In addition, another $ 300 million was allocated to provide the population with clean drinking water, and to build and repair internal roads.

The President criticized the progress of this work and instructed the responsible persons to eliminate the backlog of projects and ensure their high-quality implementation.