{"book":"adl0981","page":42,"text":"A group of young children with their nurses at the Village Development Centre at Shewaki.\nThe banner at the back says “The Village Development Project is recognised as the best means\nof raising the people’s standard of living”\n\nVILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS\nComprehensive schemes have been started to modernise\nfarming and widen the interests of the villagers.\n\nTHE Provincial Council of the Village\nDevelopment Authority in the third\nyear of the Plan inaugurated a new\nProject in Parwan. It also considered\nestablishing a similar council in Logar.\nVarious Committees were established\nduring the year in the several Village\nDevelopment Projects, and they discussed\nways and means of creating mutual\nunderstanding and an atmosphere of co\noperation and harmony among their\nvarious members. The programmes\ninitiated during the year were all under\ntaken after careful research by specialists\nand technical officers of the Village\nDevelopment Authority, and with the full\nco-operation of the communities.\n\nThe United Nations Technical Assist\nance Board continued to help the various\nsections of the Project as in the past. A\nsix months' practical training course was\nestablished which accepts students from\nthe twelfth grade of the Teachers’ Train\ning Schools. Its aim is to produce\ngraduates who are well aware of the\ntheoretical and practical objects of\nVillage Development in Afghanistan and\nwho will help the Authority in its plans\nfor further expanding the Project.\nEmphasis is placed on training in agri\nculture, health and handicrafts, subjects\nwhich will be supervised in primary\nschools by graduates of the course and\n\n89","chars":1624,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00042.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/42","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/42","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."}}