{"id":94004,"date":"2020-01-15T06:26:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/ghor-residents-flay-government-over-budget\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T06:26:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:26:29","slug":"ghor-residents-flay-government-over-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/ghor-residents-flay-government-over-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghor residents flay government over budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/January\/15\/Ghoor Protest (1).jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GHOR (SW) Dozens of Ghor residents took to the streets on Wednesday against dearth of development budget for the province.<\/p>\n<p>Chanting slogans against the government, they alleged officials had promised to take the province out of &lsquo;geographical lock-down&rsquo; status and uplift it, but no practical steps have been taken. They demanded the government to earmark funds for the Kabul &ndash; Herat highway passing through Ghor as well as additional funds for the Pozlech Dam in province.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the provincial council joined the protest, and blamed the government for neglecting the province in the annual draft budget.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Hameed Natiqi, a member of the provincial council, warned the agitation drive would continue if the government continued to neglect their demands.<\/p>\n<p>According to the provincial administration, the main demands of Kabul &#8211; Herat highway and Pozlech Dam, have already been proposed to the government.<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting the allegations of neglecting the province, Ebadullah Darman, deputy spokesman for the Ministry of Finance, said priority has been given to provinces that are lagging behind.<\/p>\n<p>The total volume for the draft annual budget 2020-21 is AFN 428 billion with AFN 289 billion for expenditure and AFN 139 billion for development projects.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GHOR (SW) Dozens of Ghor residents took to the streets on Wednesday against dearth of development budget for the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}