{"book":"adl0981","page":105,"text":"Aid from U.N.I.C.E.F. has been entirely used for the purchase of D.D.T., powdered milk, soap, medicines, etc.\nThe Government paid their share for membership in the various specialised agencies, as well as a sum of 2,561,763 Afghanis, $4,400, £1,500, and 5,000 Pakistani Rupees for the administrative expenses of U.N.T.A.B. Another sum of 3,456,000 Afghanis was also paid by the Government for the local expenses of the United Nations specialists.\nIn 1958 the United Nations Organisation arranged the establishment of a special fund to give assistance in the developmental projects of the underdeveloped countries. Afghanistan accepted membership of the Fund and undertook to pay the $6,000 annual fees. Two requests have been made to the Fund for their assistance—\n(a) in the preparation of population and agricultural statistics in 1960, and\n(b) in the survey of water resources and agricultural land.\nThe United Nations Organisation also set up an organisation for international administrative services (O.P.E.X.). This new organisation places its specialists at the disposal of governments as executive officials and not as advisers. Afghanistan requested eleven such officials for the departments of population, statistics, agriculture, planning, communications and mines and industries. But as the organisation is new the responsibilities of these executive officials have not yet been clearly defined, and they enjoy diplomatic immunity, in spite of having complete executive authority in Government departments. It seems to be wrong from the viewpoint of public administration principles to hold an office and exercise complete authority, and yet not be responsible. Afghanistan has therefore made her request for help from this organisation conditional on the responsi-\n\nbility of its administrators to the Afghan Government.\n\nB. I.C.A.\n\nThe technical assistance rendered to Afghanistan by the International Co-operation Administration of America in the year 1958 amounted to $2,850,000, which was made up as follows :—\n$\n1. For agricultural projects ... 279,000\n2. For mineral and industrial projects ... 190,000\n3. For communication projects :\nRoad improvements $32,000\nTransportation ... 307,000\nTransit project ... 22,000\n361,000\n4. Public Health ... 5,000\n5. H.V.A. ... 76,000\n6. For Educational projects:\nInstitute of Technology $127,000\nSchool of Agriculture 96,000\nInstitute of Education 462,000\nFaculty of Agriculture & Engineering 335,000\nKabul University... 55,000\n1,075,000\n7. For Public Administration... 79,000\n8. For other projects ... 785,000\n\nGrand Total $2,850,000\n\nAssistance from an I.C.A. Special Fund to Afghanistan amounted to $23,743,000, for the following projects :—\n$\nAgricultural projects ... 50,000\nRoad improvement ... 175,000\nCivil aviation ... 175,000\nTransit ... 18,993,000\nPublic health (H.V.A.) ... 100,000\nAerial photography ... 1,150,000\n\n102","chars":2887,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00105.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/105","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/105","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0981/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0981_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."}}