{"book":"adl0981","page":67,"text":"MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS\n\nTHE main effort of the Ministry of Public Works has been directed towards the continual improvement of the country's highways. This was not the Ministry's only sphere of activity, but the need for completing the work already begun on highways in the east and north was the most pressing, and therefore attracted the most attention.\n\nThe third year of the Plan in the Ministry of Public Works saw:\n(i) The continuation of projects included in the first and second years of the plan,\n(ii) the putting into effect of projects\n\nCountryfolk co-operating with the Government's Labour Corps in building the new Kabul—Torkham highway\n\n(Cont. from page 63)\nThe Ministry's representatives have participated in the following conferences and international meetings during the year :—\n1. E.C.A.F.E.'s Natural Resources Conference at Calcutta.\n2. Natural Resources Committee meeting at Bangkok.\n3. Annual E.C.A.F.E. meeting at Broad Beach, Australia.\n\nTRANSPORT AFFAIRS\n\nIn 1958 the Ministry had established a department of transport for the transport of coal and other mining products. 104 lorries secured through I.C.A. are now in use by this department. A workshop had also been established for the necessary repairs to the department's vehicles.\n\n64","chars":1265,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00067.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/67","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/67","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."}}