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Development
Continues
in
Kandahar
April - 14 - 2007 (Kandahar)
 In his fifth visit to
Kandahar province, HE
Mohammad Ehsan Zia Minister
of Rural Rehabilitation and
Development signed 50
contracts of development
project with local community
development councils (CDCs)
and private companies.
These projects value more
than $ 2.4 million which
will generate 26,000 labor
days benefiting more than
25,000 individuals. MRRD
through its latest
development efforts in
Kandahar provided short term
employment to more than
7,000 villagers.
The projects include digging
drinking water wells,
construction and
rehabilitation of roads,
bridges and small irrigation
dams for three southern
provinces of Kandahar,
Helmand and Urozgan.
“Improved security as well
as support of local
government and has enabled
us to speed up the
implementation of welfare
projects in the southern
province of Kandahar. This
development campaign has
provided a good model of
quick impact projects and
will be extended to other
southern provinces as well
as other priority
disadvantaged areas” said M
Ehsan Zia Minister of rural
rehabilitation and
development.
Since the start of these
development efforts 15
districts of Kandahar have
been covered while improved
security and development
activities greatly improved
the lives of locals.
Haji Akhtar an elder of one
of remote villages in
Kandahar said “we are very
happy to see development and
reconstruction going on in
our village. The implemented
projects has solved most of
our problems and provided
jobs for us”.
Since the start of its
development activity in
Kandahar 1,135 projects have
been identified by people, 348
projects surveyed, 253
projects contracted and work
on 200 projects has already
started out of which 89
project have been completed.
MRRD thought its different
national programmes such as
National Solidarity
Programme NSP, Water and
Sanitation Programme WatSan,
Emergency Humanitarian
Response Progremme EHRP and
National Rural Access
Prgramme NRAP works together
with rural communities to
improve their lives and
bring development.
Summary List of
the Projects Signed
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