{"book":"adl0981","page":44,"text":"The Chief of U.N.E.S.C.O. in Kabul talking to village schoolchildren about writing and drawing\n\n(iii) Girls' Schools. In these schools there is now a combined total of 17 classes and an attendance of 292 students.\n(iv) Village Schools: These schools have a total of 298 students.\n(v) Boys' Primary Schools: The school at Shewaki has a total of 6 classes, 13 sections, 403 students. That at Charasiab has 6 classes, 9 sections and 378 students. The school at Bagrami has 6 classes, 11 sections and 390 students, while that at Tangisaidan has 6 classes, 7 sections and 209 students.\nIn both the boys' and girls' schools, as well as at the Social Centre, along with the regular subjects dealt with, many educational films have been shown, and also films on the various aspects of farm life.\n\nB. Practical Training Programme\nTwenty students in three different groups have been specially trained to give practical assistance and advice to farmers in agriculture, social conditions, economic development and health. The graduates of this course have been constantly lending a helping hand to the residents of the various communities in undertakings such as digging hygienic wells, seeing that the streets are kept clean, and other development works.\n\nII Agriculture.\nActivities in this field include such items as veterinary services, the treatment and inoculation of contagious diseases, the sowing of experimental wheat, the introduction of artificial fertilisers, the cleaning of seeds and their treatment with special chemicals, as well as the keeping of honey bees.\nA total number of 19,995 animals have been given protection against, or treated for, diseases.\nSeveral farmers have been encouraged to cultivate a new American-type wheat in their land and instruction and advice have been given them in the proper\n\nPractical training in preparing a field\n\n41","chars":1856,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00044.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/44","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/44","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."}}