TALOQAN (Pajhwok): Local officials in northeastern Takhar province say more than 800 people have been hired to work in exchange for food.
Takhar governor's spokesman Khan Zarin Minhaj told Pajhwok Afghan News that the program was launched in coordination with the Department of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock in Taloqan, the provincial capital, and some districts of the province.
He said that the central government had sent 231 tons of wheat as a quota for Takhar province and 10 kilograms were given to each worker a day.
These workers work on roads to connect villages with district centers, clean roadside . . .
