Uzbek leader approved a programme of measures on further development and improvement in the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2017-2021.

The program envisages measures to improve legislation on organization and increase effectiveness of cultural and art institutions, strengthen their material and technical base.

Within the programme, theaters, museums, cultural and leisure facilities, as well as parks of culture and recreation will be renovated and reconstructed. They will also receive new equipment and musical instruments.

It is planned to involve young people in art through organizing their visits to theaters, museums, concerts. Also in the country will be held various shows and festivals.

The program also includes measures to widely promote the rich culture and art of Uzbekistan in the international arena, to increase the participation of representatives of Uzbekistan in international contests and festivals.

It is also planned to raise the prestige of the international music festival Shark Taronalari in Samarkand.

According to the document, a joint venture will be established in Uzbekistan to produce products for concert and entertainment and theatrical institutions (make-up and post-production products, shoes, special clothes, including ballet costumes, stage scenery and designs, curtains and stage costumes).

Uzbek leader ordered the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education and the Ministry of Finance to adopt measures to organize a special faculty for the preparation, retraining and upgrading of music teachers for institutions of higher and secondary special education from the 2018/2019 academic year in the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan.

The program will be financed due to resources of the investment programme, the state budget, non-budgetary fund for the development of culture and art under the Ministry of Culture, non-budgetary fund for the development of the material and technical base of educational and medical institutions under the Ministry of Finance, credits of commercial banks and other sources.