KABUL: The acting Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, Mullah Mohammad Younus Akhundzada, kicked off the construction work on a water dam in the Ghazni province, the ministry said in a statement Tuesday. According to the statement, the dam will be constructed at a cost of 19 million Afghani in Nawa district of the province. The dam has the capacity to store 30,000 cubic meters of water and will irrigate thousands of acres of land, the statement added. After the re-establishment of the Islamic Emirate, hundreds of water dams have been constructed and construction work on dozens of others is underway across the country.
The Kabul Times
