The Kabul Tribune (KT) — The Economic Affairs Directorate of the Taliban-led Prime Minister’s office announced that the National Procurement Commission, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has approved 29 development projects with a total budget of 18.5 billion Afghanis.
According to the directorate, 44 projects were presented for
approval at the meeting: 29 were approved, 14 were modified, and one was sent
back to relevant committees for further review to report at the next session.
The approved projects include the construction of general
hospitals in districts such as Daman in Kandahar, Daymirdad in Maidan Wardak,
Khas Kunar in Kunar, Pashtunkot in Faryab, Shahrak in Ghor, Sancharak in
Sar-e-Pul, Alborz in Balkh, and Hazrat Sultan in Samangan. Additionally,
100-bed hospitals will be built in Panjshir and Daykundi provinces.
Other projects involve increasing the daily cement
production of the Jabal al-Saraj factory to 5,000 metric tons, establishing an
iron production plant at the Haji Gak iron mine with a capacity of 500 metric
tons, building a 225-megawatt thermal power plant, and implementing electricity
distribution projects in various provinces across the country.
