Until December 2022, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov extended the deadline for commissioning facilities being built by Turkmen construction companies in the new administrative center of Ahal velayat. The head of state signed the relevant Decree today, announced the “Watan” news program of the Turkmen television.
Buildings and facilities in “Ahal City” were to be commissioned in September 2021.
According to the new document, the state will conclude additional agreements with contractors to complete the remaining outstanding construction work.
As the Turkmen leader said at a working meeting today, 62 local individual enterprises, and 5 state-owned enterprises, are involved in the construction of facilities within the giant “Ahal City” project.
As a reminder, at present time the administrative center of Ahal velayat is the city of Annau, located 10 kilometers east of Ashgabat.In October 2018, the President of Turkmenistan declared the intention to build a new center of the region, which will not yield to Ashgabat.
The start of construction of the country's first "smart city" worth 1,5 billion USD was given in April 2019.It is being erected in the very heart of the country, 30 kilometers southwest of the Turkmen capital.
The new administrative center will have "smart" residential buildings controlled via a smartphone, squares with a flagpole, buildings of the mayor's office and other institutions, and the Ruhyet Palace, the building of the velayat department of education and culture, a drama theater, a library, a clinic for infectious diseases, a museum, an International Higher school of horse breeding and the Research and Production Center for Horse Breeding.
In October 2021, the head of state announced that the first stage of the construction of the administrative center "Ahal" should be completed in December 2022 by the Day of Neutrality of Turkmenistan.
Earlier, we reported that a special commission was created in Turkmenistan to complete the construction of “Ahal City” worth 1,5 billion USD.