<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The article proposes a methodology for drawing up a targeted comprehensive program for the development of the rural labour market (TCPDRLM) in labour-surplus regions of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the conditions of a socially-oriented market economy. The article also proposes interrelated basic principles for the development of TCPDRLM: target orientation, complexity, conjugation, concreteness, variance, reality, optimality, priority, delimitation of powers and functions, limit, targeting, controllability and interconnectedness. On the basis of the above principles, interrelated sections of the development of this program are recommended in this work: analytical and problematic, target, scientific and methodological, information, model, software, resource, organizational and economic, summary, legal. The article determines the main stages of the development of TCPDRLM on the basis of the above-mentioned principles and section: goal setting for the development of the rural labour market (RLM), development of methodological and model devices for analyzing and forecasting the state of RLM, collection of statistical, marketing and sociological information of RLM, а compilation of the subprogram complex of TCPDRLM, approval of the compiled program for the development of RLM, creation of organizational, economic and legal mechanisms for managing the implementation and adjustment of the program.</span></span></p>