The State Committee of Uzbekistan on de-monopolization in conjunction with commercial banks and the concerned ministries and agencies have developed a program of measures for the financial support and full load of enterprises\' capacity to create new jobs.

Approved at a meeting of the National Commission on March 9, 2012, the programs include allocation of investments to about 1,000 companies in all regions of the country to carry out modernization, technical and technological re-equipment.

It is expected to attract more than 1.7 trillion soums (Exchange rate of CB 1USD-1835,75 soums) worth of investments for this purpose, including more than 1.1 trillion soums of loans from commercial banks, and as a result these companies will significantly increase the volume of production and create more than 34 thousand new jobs (Source: UzReport.com)