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A dedicated district administration — a hokimiyat — will be established for New Tashkent before the satellite city is formally constituted as an administrative-territorial unit, under a presidential decree signed on 10 November. The head of the new body will be appointed and dismissed directly by the President of Uzbekistan, bypassing the standard regional appointment process.
The decree sets out that the hokimiyat is being created to organise governance of the New Tashkent territory, deliver public services, and manage social and infrastructure facilities under a special legal regime. Crucially, the administration will begin operating ahead of the territory’s official designation — an unusual sequence that reflects the pace at which the project is being driven from the top.
A Parallel State Structure From Day One
The decree does not limit the new governance layer to a single office. Within one month, the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and other law-enforcement bodies must each establish their own dedicated units in New Tashkent. The decree also approves a standard organisational structure for the hokimiyat’s apparatus and fixes staffing levels for the state bodies and organisations that will operate there.
The new hokimiyat and its associated state-body branches will have the authority to take independent decisions on matters that previously fell within the competence of Tashkent Region and its districts — powers that will apply across the land transferred to the New Tashkent directorate for permanent use. In effect, the territory is being carved out of the existing regional governance framework and given its own parallel administrative chain reporting directly to the presidency.
Funded From the National Budget
Running costs for the hokimiyat and for any state bodies that would ordinarily be financed from a local budget will instead be covered by the republican — that is, the national — budget of Uzbekistan. The arrangement underscores the project’s status as a centrally directed priority rather than a conventional municipal undertaking, and removes any dependency on Tashkent Region’s own fiscal capacity during the build-out phase.
The combination of direct presidential appointment, pre-emptive administrative creation and national budget backing places New Tashkent in a governance category of its own among Uzbekistan’s territorial units — closer in structure to a special economic zone administration than to an ordinary district hokimiyat.