Dozens of projects costing 120m afs completed in Bamyan

BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): Dozens of development projects have been completed at a cost of more than 120 million afghanis in central Bamyan province, an official said on Thursday.

Mullah Ziaullah Khadim, Bamyan rural rehabilitation and development director, told Pajhwok Afghan News 128 development projects consuming 120 million and 298,000 afghanis were put into service on Wednesday.

Funded by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS,), the projects were executed in Saighan and Shibar districts to provide people with social services.

These projects include construction of 301-km third grade roads, cleaning of 153 meters of agricultural canals, construction of 27 culverts, 1,261 meters of retaining walls, 906 meters of protective walls, digging thousands of ditches to store rainwater and prevent floods. The projects took 12 months to complete.

Khadim said 90 projects were implemented in Shibar district and 38 projects in Saighan district and thousands of unemployed people were given work opportunity.

Bamyan governor Maulvi Abdullah Sarhadi told the projects commissioning ceremony that Bamyan residents lived in poverty. “This province is remote and has no access to social services”.

He said since IEA’s takeover, corruption has been eradicated and all ethnicities lived together in brotherhood.

The local administration is trying to implement similar development projects in order to provide services to the people, he emphasized.

Meanwhile, residents say the projects would solve their problems.

Qudratullah, a resident of Shibar district, said the projects solved problems like lack of roads, drinking water and irrigation water.

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