"How can you destroy a school stadium?" The khokim of Surkhandarya ordered "not to joke with schools."

Surkhandarya Region Khokim Ulugbek Kosimov expressed outrage over the reduction of school stadiums, declaring that "schools cannot be trifled with." A video recording of his speech on August 20, made during a citizen's reception in the Altynsay District, was published by the regional Khokimiyat.

"They built a new additional building, destroying the stadium. I say: didn't you play football? Didn't you go to school? How can you destroy a stadium? Football is so necessary. We all grew up playing football. I went away on vacation, and when I returned, the stadium was gone," the Khokim exclaimed indignantly.

Ulugbek Kosimov shared memories from his childhood: "When a class was cancelled, everyone would run out to the stadium in a crowd, even playing football barefoot. Now that it's been destroyed, of course, everyone will be glued to their phones, what else can they do?"

"None of you should mess around with school. School is a great place," he emphasized.

Earlier, Gazeta reported that Ulugbek Kosimov criticized the condition of roads, train cars, and train and plane fares, noting that "it's shameful to look people in the eye."

In 2022, it became known that since 2018, about 200 schools across the country had illegally lost part of their land. That same year, we wrote about the suspension of construction of a multi-story building on the site of the stadium of School No. 50 in Andijan, where, according to the prosecutor's office, the mayor's decision was forged.

In 2023, tennis courts in Tashkent's Yashnabad district were demolished to make way for development. Tennis Federation Secretary General Iroda Tulyaganova reported that two stadiums were demolished in Jizzakh, one in Termez, and more than 20 courts in the capital.

In May of this year, the "Every Mahalla—A Football Field" program was launched in Uzbekistan at the initiative of the president.