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Enormous numbers villagers move to main city in Bamyan
Ariana News reporter who has visited Bamyan province, saying huge number of the villagers are coming from their villages due to different problems according to the villagers who have left their villages due to poverty, losing huge number of their animals drought, to come to main city of Bamyan.
Meanwhile officials in Ministry of Rural Rehabilitant and Development stated that $120 million project will be launched which will create 14000 jobs opportunities for the villagers of Bamyan province.
Bamyan resident Ahmad Natiqi said,” Hundreds of families have moved into Bamyan city, for experiencing poor life condition within their villages, their moving will impact the Agriculture industry within the suburbs,”.
“Huge numbers of the villagers have left our village due to losing their animals, poverty, drought and having no lands to work said one of the villagers,”
Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development Naseer Ahmad Durani said,” a project will be launched (281) from council development section in Panjab and Waras districts of Bayman province with the cost of 140 million Afghani, by implementation of the following project 14032 persons will hold short term jobs opportunities.”
During his speech he has told to the residents of Bamyan what we do in the first step is to full our stomach, and then we will work over the other projects.
He also urged that on 2014 $81 dollar for one singular resident of Bamyan was invested, but in the year 2015 $115 dollar has been invested over on singular resident of Bamyan.
Reported by Ahmad Farshad Saleh
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry said Thursday it has signed cooperation agreements with ten institutions to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, said: “In the implementation of projects, we must pay special attention to our activities and actions and try to make useful use of the projects according to the requirements and benefit the beneficiaries.”
These ten institutions are to present their projects, the total value of which is around over $1.1 million. The projects will be carried out in Kabul, Baghlan, Ghor, Herat, Logar, Nangarhar, Balkh, Badakhshan and Jawzjan provinces and provide direct jobs for about 1,000.
To date, the ministry has signed MoUs for 72 projects in total, collectively valued at about $53.6 million.
These agreements have been signed with domestic and foreign companies for the establishment of small and medium-sized businesses.
In accordance with the principles and laws of the Islamic Emirate and prioritizing the implementation of projects for immigrants and returnees and internally displaced people, the ministry said 635,865 people will benefit through jobs directly and over 4.3 million will benefit indirectly in 25 provinces once these projects are implemented.
The National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) confirmed Tuesday that in the last month of solar year 1402, (March 2024) Afghanistan’s exports totaled $141.1 million and imports totaled $789.6 million.
This was down from $174 million for exports in the same period in 1401. However, imports increased by $99.2 million in 1402, up from $690.4 million.
Most exports in the last month of 1402 went to Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates, while in the last month of 1401 exports went to Pakistan, India and China.
The Ministry of Interior said the governor of Herat province Islam Jar met with Alim Khan Yasin Gildaye, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Afghanistan, to discuss various issues around trade.
According to the ministry, the two sides discussed the expansion of trade facilities, increasing the volume of trade exchanges between traders of the two countries, reducing customs tariffs, solving the challenges of traders and issuing visas to them.
The Afghanistan-Kazakhstan Chamber of Commerce has been opened in Herat in order to facilitate and increase trade between the two countries.
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