{"id":16981,"date":"2023-12-23T07:58:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T07:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=16981"},"modified":"2023-12-23T07:58:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T07:58:47","slug":"construction-commenced-on-three-dams-in-paktia-for-rural-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/12\/construction-commenced-on-three-dams-in-paktia-for-rural-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction commenced on three dams in Paktia for rural development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PAKTIA (SW) &#8211; Officials at the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development report that construction has commenced on three dams and several other projects worth 40 million Afghanis in Paktia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The construction of these dams commenced on Friday, December 22, with the presence of Mohammad Younes Akhundzada, Acting Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials of the Ministry of Rural Development and Rehabilitation, these three dams will be built in Zermat, Rouhani Baba and Sayed Karam districts of Paktia.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development has stated that dam construction will also commence in other provinces.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned that the de-facto government has decided to build a dam in every district across Afghanistan, and the task is distributed among three ministries for construction in 420 districts nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Akhundzada says: &#8220;The construction of 140 dams in 13 provinces has been entrusted to the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recently, officials in the Paktia sub-marine area informed Salam Watandar that 30% of the clean water reservoirs in the province have dried up, and almost 50% of the water sources have disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAKTIA (SW) &#8211; Officials at the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development report that construction has commenced on three dams and several other projects worth 40 million Afghanis in Paktia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,981,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-economy","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":64,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16985,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions\/16985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}