The people should not serve government institutions; government institutions should serve the people

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The ongoing reforms aimed at involving the private sector in the execution of state functions play a significant role in ensuring the effectiveness of state authority and governance bodies. In particular, as part of the Administrative Reforms Concept adopted in 2017 in the Republic of Uzbekistan, six priority directions for a comprehensive reform of the state management system were defined, and—based on a special “Roadmap”—the activities of more than 100 state and economic management bodies were scheduled for review. The material and technical provisions of local governments, along with the wage payment system for their employees, were revised, thereby ensuring the practical independence of local bodies in the formation and management of local budgets. Keywords: Business, project, education, economic management, Cabinet of Ministers, socio-economic, extraterritorial principle. main directions for improving the efficiency of the Introduction: Furthermore, in 2017—and with the aim Cabinet of Ministers were established. The practice of of effectively addressing the accumulated problems in Deputy Prime Ministers simultaneously heading joint- the relevant sectors—agencies for housing and stock companies, corporations, and other communal services, preschool education, and the organizations with state participation was abolished, Ministry of Foreign Trade; the State Committee for and their number was optimized. Tourism Development; and the National Agency for Project Management were established. The Cabinet of As a result of administrative reforms in the governance the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the system, the number of districts (cities) increased from executive structure of the Government apparatus were 193 in 2016 to 207 in 2021. Today, within the structure revised and improved. While the functions and of the Cabinet of Ministers, there are 24 ministries, 9 responsibilities of 18 ministries and agencies were state committees, 4 state inspections, 14 agencies, 5 enhanced and 24 state and economic management committees, 6 centers, 2 central institutions, 4 bodies and other organizations were restructured, in inspections, 9 associations, 10 banks, 23 companies, 6 2018, 93 state management bodies were reformed— unions, 1 fund, and more than 10 other organizations, with 77 ministries and agencies being reorganized, 7 with over 100 subordinate institutions operating under abolished, and 9 newly established. them. In 2019, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan One of the key structural reforms in the sector was the issued the Decree on Priority Measures to Increase the establishment of the State Services Agency under the Responsibility of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Ministry of Justice and its regional branches on Republic of Uzbekistan for the Effective December 12, 2017. As a result, 205 State Services Implementation of Strategic Tasks for the Socio- Centers were launched across the country, with over Economic Development of the Country and the 100 branches in remote areas. Additionally, 157 types Resolution on the Introduction of a Qualitatively New of state services became available regardless of the System for Organizing the Work of the Government of citizen’s place of residence, based on the Uzbekistan. In accordance with these documents, the extraterritorial principle. This reform significantly International Journal Of History And Political Sciences 7 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ijhps International Journal Of History And Political Sciences (ISSN – 2771-2222) reduced the number of required documents and the visits. In 2020, nearly 1.2 million appeals were service processing time, while also improving the submitted to the President’s Virtual and Public quality and efficiency of public services. Reception Offices. As a result of reports and information submitted by the President’s Public In 2017, more than 120,000 state services were Reception Offices, 752 officials who failed to properly provided to entrepreneurs. Today, over 26 million address citizens' appeals were held accountable. requests from individuals and legal entities for state services have been processed. More than 110 The Public Reception Offices have been granted the legislative acts related to the provision of state services authority to examine the activities of state bodies, have been developed, and over 70 services have been submit proposals, and recommend disciplinary simplified. Additionally, around 80 administrative measures up to the dismissal of officials found guilty of regulations governing state services have been legal violations. adopted. As a result, the number of required As part of the Action Strategy, Uzbekistan has been documents was reduced from 167 to 79, and the implementing consistent measures to ensure freedom service processing time was shortened from 499 days of speech and information, as well as to establish the to 271 days. Furthermore, 254 state services are now institutional and leg