{"book":"adl0981","page":27,"text":"Buildings:\nBasic steps for a 50-year plan of construction for Kabul University were taken during the year. After surveys regarding the number of buildings, their requirements and educational functions, especially the detailed plans for the construction of the first six buildings to be constructed, the contract has been given with the assistance of the United States International Co-operation Administration to the Pacific Architects Inc. These plans are expected to be completed soon.\n\nPART IV\nFOREIGN RELATIONS\nThe Ministry of Education maintains close and very cordial ties with international organisations and friendly countries. The United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organisation and friendly countries have consistently helped educational institutions in Afghanistan. This assistance has proved of great value in furthering the interests of education in our schools.\n\nExchange of Cultural Missions:\nBy promoting friendly co-operation and creating better understanding it has rendered a valuable service to the cause of international understanding. The United Nations Day, the World Health Day and the Red Crescent Day are celebrated according to elaborately prepared programmes in all schools in Afghanistan.\n\nWe wish to say something here regarding the trend these relations took during the past year:—\n\n1—Our relations with U.N.E.S.C.O.:\n(a) The U.N.E.S.C.O. General Conference was held in Paris in November,\n\nGirls from the Rabia Balkhi primary school\n\n1958, in which an Afghan delegation led by the Deputy Minister of Education participated.\n\n(b) Under the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance and the Participation Programme, U.N.E.S.C.O. has undertaken to:—\n\n(i) Continue its assistance to the School of Mechanics at Kandahar (in the form of three experts).\n\n(ii) Continue its assistance to the Community Development Project (in the form of three experts).\n\n(iii) Provide one Professor of Physics for Kabul University.\n\n(iv) Provide one expert on Public Administration.\n\n24","chars":2007,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00027.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/27","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/27","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."}}