The head of a mahalla in Surxondaryo’s Qiziriq district says he and fellow neighbourhood chiefs are summoned to the district centre every day — sometimes before 7 a.m. — to answer for residents’ unpaid tax debts, including arrears as small as 100,000 soums.
A World Bank and AIIB-backed rural infrastructure programme completed its first phase after reaching one million people across five Uzbek regions; a $320 million second phase targeting 1.2 million beneficiaries by 2031 is now under way.
