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Women at work in a Silk Rayon Factory in Kabul. During the fourth year of the Plan, work was begun on two great projects to harness Kabul river. The Naghlo Power Project will have a capacity of 60,000 kilowatts and the Daroonta Multi-purpose Project is intended to irrigate the adjoining deserts and produce 10,000 kilowatts at the same time. One of the main problems of industrial development in Afghanistan has been the training of personnel on different levels. As a solution to the problem many technical schools have been established in the country and all industrial establishments have taken steps to train their workers on the job with the aid of local and foreign technicians. Also a number of men are sent abroad each year to get more specialised training. As an example, 49 people were sent abroad for this purpose during the fourth year of the Plan. THE DEPARTMENT OF MINES The measures adopted by the Department of Mines under the fourth year of the economic Plan were calculated to increase production in existing mines and pave the way for extensive development in the future by means of research and investigation. In the field of petroleum, prospecting an area of 43,000 square kilometres, which had been previously explored by Soviet experts, was explored more extensively during the fourth year of the Plan. The second phase of seismic operations and the preparation of geological maps with a scale of 1/50,000 have been completed. Drilling for petroleum in favourable rocks continued. Three oil wells which have a total depth of 3,800 metres were drilled during the first three years of the Plan. During the fourth year considerable layers of rock containing petroleum and natural gas were discovered. An area of approximately 72,000 square miles was marked out for oil prospecting and arrangements were made to prepare geological maps of this area. To facilitate 36