Samarkand governor orders teachers to monitor streets

Samarkand region Governor Adiz Boboyev instructed teachers to monitor streets during a meeting with rectors of higher education institutions. The regional administration reported this.

According to Adiz Boboyev, streets will be assigned to all higher education institutions in the region, and teachers and professors at those institutions will be responsible for the streets assigned to them.

“We will assign one, two, or for some institutions even three streets, depending on the length, size and field of activity. We will take everything into account and allocate streets. This street will belong to such-and-such institute. I am not telling you to plant a tree there, build a sidewalk or do something else. You will be the owners of that street, you will take responsibility for it,” the governor said at the meeting.

Boboyev emphasized that the cleanliness of the assigned streets would be monitored by teachers every morning. The governor said even pupils and students could be involved in the process.

“You have your own teachers, your own students. Every morning, one teacher can walk around there, another teacher can walk along that area. It is also good for health,” Boboyev said.

According to the regional governor, during the monitoring process, teachers will need to know which parts of the street are damaged or require repair, where saplings need to be planted, or where plants have been affected by disease. Teachers or university staff assigned to monitor streets will also have to submit proposals to the administration on how to solve the problems they encounter during inspections.

“For example, one sapling, or four or five different types of saplings mixed together on a street. There are thousands of such issues. You will take these streets and create your own ‘road map’ for each one from start to finish,” the governor said.

Under Adiz Boboyev’s instruction, assigned higher education institutions will keep a list of areas on the streets where there are no saplings.

“You will make a list of places where there are no saplings. The necessary type of sapling will be provided. Autumn will come in two months. They can be planted in November. We will replace areas that have been planted chaotically. You will also identify where shrubs need to be planted,” Boboyev instructed.

The Samarkand regional administration noted that the initiative to assign city streets to higher education institutions is aimed at introducing a new approach to landscaping work.

For reference, under Article 5 of Uzbekistan’s Law “On the Status of Teachers,” involving teachers in forced labor and unlawfully interfering in their professional activities is prohibited by law. Teachers may not be involved in community labor, landscaping of territories, agricultural work or other forms of forced labor.

The law also stipulates that officials who forcibly involve teachers in work unrelated to their duties, interfere in their teaching process or obstruct them from performing their official duties will be held accountable in accordance with the established procedure.