Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- More than 3 trillion soums will be allocated from district and city budgets for new season of “Initiative Budget”. The maximum cost of projects in 2024 is 1,360 million soums, the Ministry of Economy and Finance reported.

At the first stage, proposals are submitted by citizens, and the processes of forming their projects are carried out - in the period from 1 to 20 February. At the second stage, projects are selected by a special commission - from February 21 to March 11, and at the third stage, voting on projects is carried out - from 12 to 31 March.

In April last year the first season of the Initiative Budget project ended. During the voting process, which took place from 18 March to 7 April, over 16 million votes were cast across 33,680 initiatives across the country through the Open Budget portal.

Based on the voting results, 1,666 projects were recognized as winners.

As for the second season, it ended on 16 September 2023. Over 18 million votes were cast through the Open Budget portal for 33,489 initiatives, of which 1,187 initiatives were recognized as winners based on voting results.