7 new development projects started in Urozgan Province.
Tuesday
30/June/2009
The Minister for Rural Rehabilitation and Development, Mr. Ehsan Zia signed 7 development projects in the province of Urozgan today 29th January 2009.
The projects include 3 intakes, 2 retaining wall with 2011 M length, 1500 M roads and construction of a 60 M motor able bridge at cost of more then 2 million USD.
The projects will be completed in 3 to 4 months benefiting 72 thousands people in Trinkot area at Urozgan.
20/000 working days will be generated through the implementing of the above projects will also provide irrigation facilities, protection house from contingent floods and provides transport facilities for the people of Trinkot.
Additional to the above, The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development have implemented more then 185 development projects with a cost of 17 million USD in the districts at Chara, Dehrahad, Khas Urozgan and Trinkot of which 72 projects have been completed and the work of the remaining projects are ongoing/
All the above mentioning projects have been requested by the people that indicated the people desire to the reconstruction process.
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Afghan officials urge speeding the pace of aid
Philadelphia Inquirer
05/17/2009 By Trudy Rubin
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 After
three weeks in Pakistan and Afghanistan, I find it
easier to be hopeful about the latter.
Across the board, the Afghans I met, from government
officials to elders to students, did not want a
return of harsh Taliban rule. But they were
frustrated with their government's failure to
provide security and jobs or to lessen corruption.
Polls bear out what I heard. They indicate that
Taliban gains grow out of intimidation and the
Taliban's ability to provide rough governance where
the government fails to deliver. >>>
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Afghan minister sees hope in travels
Matthew
Fisher, National Post
Published: Monday,
April 20, 2009
 Mohammed
Esan Zia may be the most popular politician in Afghanistan. He
certainly is the most well-travelled.
Mr. Zia has been the
Minister for Rural Rehabilitation and Development since 2006. In
that role the soft-spoken development expert has made about 100
trips to 34 of this country's 38 far-flung provinces. This has
been no small feat, considering that the east and the south are
in a state of war and that most of the country is inaccessible
except by helicopter and donkey.
Mr. Zia, who has a
master's degree in war recovery studies from Britain's York
University, has no time for those learned publications that have
recently predicted that the Taliban are winning the insurgency.
"The reason I travel
so much is so that I can come face-to-face with the hope and
determination of our people," he said during an hour-long
discussion in his office. "They want to play a role in the
development of our villages, which constitute our identity.
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Zia visits Brasilia to
strengthen ties with Brazil
Lalit K Jha - Mar 21, 2009 - 17:01
WASHINGTON
(PAN): In an effort to build the nascent Afghan-Brazil ties, the Afghanistans Minister
of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, Mohammad Ehsan Zia, and
Political Counselor M Ashraf Haidari, paid an official visit to Brasilia early
this month.
During their two-day visit, they met with Miguel Jorge, Minister
of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade Miguel Jorge; Silas
Brasileiro, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food
Supply; and Ambassador Roberto Jaguaribe, Undersecretary General
for Political Affairs of the Ministry of External Relations.
The bilateral meetings focused on a discussion of Afghanistans expanding
relations with Brazil,
and assessing areas of technical cooperation with the country,
Haidari said.
Zia conveyed the gratitude of President Hamid Karzai and Afghan
people to the Brazilian officials for their government’s recent
financial pledge to assist the Afghan reconstruction efforts.
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Inauguration of 1 school in Jawzjan province
21 February, 2009 -
 Construction
of 1 school with the cost totals to 3 million Afs funded and
implemented by MRRD under National Solidarity Programme (NSP)
with direct contribution of community development council. The
completion of the project provided educational facility for more
than 500 students in Jawzjan province.
Of note the
fact is that since the beginning of the year the National
Solidarity Program of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and
Development implementing 163 rural development projects in 85
villages of Jawzjan province of which 108 projects were
completed and 55 projects are under progress.
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