{"book":"adl0957","page":365,"text":"300\n\nto those already in existence. Hospitals for women will be\nestablished at Gardez, Khost, Badakhshan, Maimana, Ghazni,\nand Farrah. Dental hospitals will be opened at Gardez,\nKataghan and Mashriqi. Laboratories and clinics will be\nestablished at Khost, Badakhshan, Maimana, Ghazni and\nFarrah. Total cost is estimated at 102·970 million Afghanis\n(including 1·092 million dollars).\n\nCommunity Development and Municipal Projects :—\nThe Government intends to work for the village uplift in 500\nvillages during the first year of the plan. This is to be extended\nto 1,620 villages in the second year, to 1,740 villages in the third\nyear, to 1,860 villages in the fourth year and to 2,220 villages\nin the fifth and final year. The project will cost the Government.\n166 million Afghanis. The foreign exchange expense for this project\nestimated at 2·500 million dollars will be paid through foreign\naid and other miscellaneous foreign currency expenses. The\nmunicipalities will also be helped to supply good drinking water,\nto asphalt public streets and to provide parks and recreation\ngrounds.\n\nMines : Afghanistan is rich in some important minerals.\nThe economic plan, within its means, provides the possibilities\nof utilizing these natural resources. Included in these projects\nare the drilling and search for petroleum (to be commenced at\nSaripul), physical and geological survey and exploitation in\nnorthern provinces, expansion of the exploitation of coal mines\nat Ishpushta, Karkar and other places in and around the\nHindukush and Herat. The expenses in this line will amount\nto 242·439 million Afghanis (including 6 million dollars).\n\nIndustries :—Present factories and industries will be\ncompleted and encouraged and new ones for textile, cement,","chars":1749,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00365.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/365","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/365","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."}}