{"book":"adl0981","page":71,"text":"The road from Doshi to the foot of the pass has been 45 per cent. completed.\nThe construction of the bridges and drains which number a total of 157 has been 72 per cent. completed. Other buildings have been completed as follows :\nHousing for the engineers, 100 per cent.\nThe 2 storeyed hotel, 25 per cent.\nThe general workshop, 25 per cent.\nThe transport building, 25 per cent.\nThe ironmongers' workshop, 80 per cent.\nThe electricity station, 80 per cent.\nThe bathhouse, 95 per cent.\nThe explosives storage building, 100 per cent.\nThe general depot building, 60 per cent.\nThe petrol tank building, 25 per cent.\nThe Minister of Public Works explaining some of the construction work on the Salang Highway to His Majesty the King (left)\n\nThe laboratory building, 100 per cent.\nWork on the Second and Third Phases will start as soon as the necessary equipment and materials have arrived.\nApart from the obvious economical advantages to be derived from the construction of this road, it is felt that it will also have beneficial social repercussions in that travel from the south to the north of the country will be made easier and more agreeable.\nThe expenditure incurred so far for the construction of the Salang Road is as follows :\n19,791,406 Afghanis, which represents the total expenditure incurred by the Government of Afghanistan and 12,237,367 U.S. dollars which represents the contribution of the Government of the U.S.S.R. through a loan agreement.\nShpoonbaba Bridge\nThe erection of the Shpoonbaba Bridge on the Kabul River at Tang-i-Gharoo was begun in the early summer of last year and finished in the winter. 19 metres in length and 9 metres wide, it is made entirely from concrete and steel.\nThe Ministry's Supervisory Department has the responsibility and technical facilities for supervising the entire highway system in Afghanistan, and for undertaking the immediate repair of any damage done to bridges, drains, etc., on these roads. It is the duty of this Department moreover to supervise the asphalting work on highways included in the Plan, machine and technical projects, and transit affairs. Furthermore it has undertaken the supervision of the import of various types of machinery for road construction, surveys, laboratory equipment and spares of all kinds. The Department's function with regard to the transit project is to supervise the construction and asphalting of the Spin Boldak highway, the agreement regarding which was\n68","chars":2452,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00071.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/71","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/71","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."}}