{"book":"adl0981","page":17,"text":"A new primary school at Panjsher, now nearly finished\n\nmagazine entitled \" IRFAN \" as its\nofficial organ.\n\n(IV) Libraries:\nThe Library of the Ministry of Educa-\ntion has been reorganised on modern\nlines and its catalogues and lists have been\nbrought up-to-date; a number of new\nvolumes on educational and specialised\nsubjects were acquired for school\nlibraries.\n\n(E) Buildings and Teaching Materials :\nGreater emphasis has been laid upon\nrepairs to existing and construction of\nnew buildings for elementary schools; ten\nsuch new buildings have been constructed.\nIn secondary education the building of\nthe oldest secondary school in the country\nis being reconstructed on modern lines\nin a part of New Kabul. A new building\nfor girl students is also under construc-\ntion. In the field of vocational education\nthe main success achieved during the\n\nyear consisted of the completion of the\nbuildings of the Afghan Institute of\nTechnology and other technical schools\nsituated in Kabul and the provinces.\n\nA large quantity of teaching materials\nwas acquired in Japan and imported\ninto Afghanistan during the year. In\nAfghanistan teaching materials are pro-\nvided free of charge to school children.\nSuch equipment is generally purchased\nfrom abroad. Materials purchased abroad\nlast year are expected to meet the needs\nof schools for a period of three years.\n\n(F) Expansion of Schools:\nSchools have been expanded according\nto the provisions of the Five-year\nDevelopment Plan; it is done in two\nways :-\n\n(i) By establishing new schools; and\n(ii) By increasing sections in schools.\n\nGenerally new elementary schools alone\nhave been established and few additions\n\n14","chars":1654,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00017.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/17","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/17","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."}}