KABUL (SW): Afghan government signed 92 projects contract worth $ 20 million with India.
The projects would be implemented in various sectors such development, education and health.
Abdullah Abdullah, Chief Executive Officer, while signing the contract said that the remote provinces which have not been developed should be given priority.
The contract was signed at a ceremony participated by ministers of health, agriculture, public work, rural development, water and energy, education, higher education, labor, women affairs, immigrants, directors of local governance and physical education Abdullah have called India as donor countries to Afghanistan in the ceremony.
Moreover, Prime Minister of India during his visit to Afghanistan for the inauguration of the new building of the National Assembly, announced the financing and implementation of these projects.
It is worth mentioning that India would fund more than 70 other projects worth $ 25 million in development and promotional sectors in Afghanistan.
India and Afghanistan leaders signed a strategic agreement aimed at expanding cooperation in security and development in 2011.
India with donating more than two billion dollars aid to Afghanistan in 2014, is the fifth largest donor to Afghanistan after the US, Great Britain, Japan and Germany.
India has always supported Afghanistan in all political, economic, educational and social affairs.
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