{"book":"adl0957","page":361,"text":"296\n\ngreater importance to agriculture for it will provide employment\nfor a greater number of people. At the same time it envisages\na considerable increase in the capacity of electric power by\nconstruction of dams and control of flood water.\n\nThe responsibility of the Government in the matter of pro-\nmoting, assisting and regulating the development of industry\nin the national interest cannot be emphasized too strongly.\nA country like Afghanistan which starts late on industrialization\nhas to encompass within a relative brief period processes of\ndevelopment which took several generations in countries which\nhad an early start. To this end resources have to be mobilized\nand deployed effectively and purposefully. A plan not only\ndraws on existing resources, it develops and enlarges on them\nin the process. Resources are not a fixed or static quantity;\nthey lie unknown or partially known unless conscious and\norganized efforts are made to locate them and develop them.\nIn this connection intensive and systematic surveys and explo-\nrations, especially in the field of mineral resources, are of vital\nimportance. Every effort has to be made to train up a corp\nof scientists and technicians for the purpose.\n\nSardar Mohammad Daud, the Prime Minister, referring\nto the five year plan in the National Assembly said. \"The\npurpose of this Plan is to pursue a clear economic policy with\na view to utilize to the best advantage available natural\nresources, capital and manpower. Every effort will be made\nto increase production, train technical personnel, practice strict\neconomy and eliminate waste of every kind in the use of\nmanpower, material resources and funds. The implementation\nof this Plan will enable us in achieving security of social justice,\nraising the living standard of all the classes and finally\nguaranteeing the general welfare of the people.\"","chars":1861,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00361.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/361","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/361","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}