FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): More than 5,000 people would benefit from recently completed 31 different projects in various districts of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Wednesday.
Abdul Wali, the provincial National Solidarity Programme (NSP) head at the Rural Development Department, told Pajhwok Afghan News the projects included small hydropower dams, retaining walls, the construction of footpaths along roads and buildings for social centers.
Residents of Argo, Shahr-i-Buzurg, Darayem and Shuhada districts benefited from the projects that cost more than 48 million afghanis spent from the Rural Development Ministry’s budget.
A Shahr-i-Buzurg district resident, Abdul Raqib, said about 100 families in their area found access to potable water with the establishment of a water channel.
“We would drink standing and contaminated water which caused various diseases among residents,” he said.
Badakhshan is a mountainous northeastern province having 28 districts. Residents complain the province has been ignored with regard to development projects.
But the NSP’s head said similar projects were being executed in 17 districts. He said some of the schemes had been 80 percent completed and the rest would be finished until summer.
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