Residents of Kara-Jantak village in Kyrgyzstan’s Batken region have received official property documents for 295 homes following the village’s transfer from Uzbekistan under a border agreement.
The regional administration said officials handed over the documents to residents, who had previously received Kyrgyz passports.
Around 1,200 people live in Kara-Jantak, which was formerly part of Uzbekistan’s Fergana region. In 2024, the village came under the jurisdiction of the city of Kadamjay in the Batken region as part of a settlement negotiated by the two countries’ intergovernmental commission on border delimitation and demarcation. Their border treaty was signed in 2022.
Construction has begun on a 14-kilometer water supply network, with the project estimated to cost 38 million Kyrgyz soms (approximately $435,000).
A separate irrigation project worth 316 million soms (around $3.6 million) has been prepared and is expected to be implemented soon. Land has also been set aside for a school and a kindergarten.
In June 2026, two other former Uzbek villages, Chongara and Tash-Tobo in the Fergana region, became part of Kyrgyzstan. Around 2,500 people, mostly ethnic Kyrgyz, live in the two settlements. In exchange, Kyrgyzstan transferred land of equal area to Uzbekistan along the border.
In a separate development, authorities in the Batken region are preparing to allocate 170 habitable houses out of 213 transferred to Kyrgyzstan through a territorial exchange with Tajikistan. The exchange followed a border settlement signed in March 2025.
The houses will be provided to citizens who lost their homes or whose properties became uninhabitable during fighting along the Kyrgyz-Tajik border in 2021 and 2022.
A regional working group led by Baktybek Toksonbaev, the first deputy presidential representative in the Batken region, reviewed the allocation process. It focused on providing a second replacement home to families whose two houses on the same plot had both been left uninhabitable.
Authorities expect to hand over the properties to eligible residents in the coming days, following the required legal procedures.
