KABUL (Pajhwok): The public works minister on Tuesday said the unemployment level would be reduced from the current 40 percent, which mostly resulted from Covid-19 pandemic, to 20 percent in the country.
Bashir Ahmad Tayanj told a press conference in Afghan-Korea Educational Institute in Kabul that the unemployment rate reached its peak last fiscal year due to coronavirus outbreak.
Based on the information of National Information and Statistics Authority, currently 40 percent of people eligible to work are jobless, he said.
“We would try to reduce the unemployment rate to 20 percent this ongoing solar year,” he said . . .
