Reconstruction

Construction work on a 30-kilometer road has begun at a cost of 350 million afghanis in southern Ghazni province, an official said on Wednesday.

A three- storey hotel costing 83 million afghanis is being built by the municipality on a 1,800-square-meter plot in central Kapisa province.

Following the publication of a Pajhwok Afghan News report about citizens’ complaints regarding prolonged power outages in Kabul, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) has announced activating the 105-megawatt Tarakhel thermal power plant.

Construction work has been initiated on the first standard workshop for repairing agricultural machinery at a cost of seven million afghanis in the capital of northern Jawzjan province.

Local officials in southern Helmand say construction has begun on five retaining walls worth 72 million Afghanis in Greshk district. Once completed, the walls will protect hundreds of acres of agricultural land from flood risks.

The Energy and Water Department says a check dam with a storage capacity of more than 2,000 cubic meters of water has been completed and put into operation in western Ghor province.

Residents of Jaghori district in southern Ghazni province have constructed a new school building at a cost of 13 million afghanis from their own resources, local officials said on Wednesday.

The technical survey of a hydropower dam with a generation capacity of 10 megawatts has been completed in the Paryan district of central Panjsher province, an official announced on Monday.

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) will set up a 100-bed specialised cardiac hospital in the central capital Kabul at a cost of 24 million US dollars, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) announced on Saturday.

A school building has been constructed at a cost of 240,000 US dollars in Nahr-i-Shahi district of northern Balkh province, an official said on Thursday.

The Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) says repair and sealing work on the Kunduz–Takhar highway has begun at a cost of three million afghanis.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (MoHUD) has approved detailed plans for the construction of migrant townships in central Uruzgan and eastern Nangarhar provinces.