In recent years, Turkmenistan has been actively carrying out large-scale urban development programs aimed at ensuring all urban residents have access to safe and high-quality housing.
These initiatives aim to address several objectives, including ensuring universal access to safe and affordable housing, providing access to safe, affordable and environmentally sustainable transportation, creating open green spaces accessible to everyone, and establishing a comfortable and favorable environment for living and working in cities.
Special attention is being paid to urban infrastructure, which includes residential complexes as well as the construction and commissioning of kindergartens, schools and other specialized institutions, healthcare facilities, cultural centers, trade and service facilities, sports infrastructure, as well as transport-communication and engineering-technical systems.
The country is actively working on comprehensive and balanced planning for regional development. This goal is being pursued through the "National Program of the President of Turkmenistan for Transforming the Social and Living Conditions of the Population in Villages, Settlements, Towns, Etraps, and Etrap Centers for the Period Until 2028." A phased reconstruction is underway in all regions of the country, which includes the construction of high-rise residential buildings, homes with enhanced comfort and improved layouts, as well as cottage-style houses.
As noted during an expanded meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan that reviewed the results of last year's activities, 86 production and socio-cultural facilities were opened using all sources of funding. Additionally, 1.145 million square meters of housing were commissioned. Thousands of families celebrated housewarmings. Last year also saw the continuation of construction on the second phase of the "smart" city of Arkadag, which was built for the first time in the country's history on the initiative of Hero-Arkadag.
According to the "Program for Socio-Economic Development of Turkmenistan and Investments in 2025," it is planned this year to build and commission residential buildings with a total area of about 500,000 square meters. Plans also include constructing general education institutions with a capacity for 4,620 students and preschool institutions with a capacity for 2,000 children. This year will also see the commissioning of modern villages in the gengeshliks of "Öňaldy" in Ak Bugday etrap and "Gowşut" in Kaakhka etrap of Ahal velayat; new modern villages in Gyzylarbat etrap of Balkan velayat; and a new modern settlement in Kunyaurgench etrap of Dashoguz velayat.
To improve the social and living standards of people in both velayats and the capital city, construction will begin on several new buildings. Additionally, it is planned to complete construction on some existing facilities and structures.
Source: Electronic newspaper «Golden age»
