MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Construction work on the Qush Tapa canal --- a 60 billion afghanis project --- was launched in northern Balkh province on Wednesday.
Deputy prime minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and a number of ministers attended the project’s inauguration ceremony.
Feasibility study of the canal was carried out in 2018 and the canal project is considered one of the mega projects on regional level.
The 380km long canal can carry 10 billion cubic meters of water from the Amu river. The canal --- 100 meters wide and 8.5 meters deep – can irrigate half a million hectors of land . . .
