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Donors to halt financial supports on TA electricity project
Lower house of the parliament has summoned the deputy of the Minister of Water and Energy to provide more details over the TA project which has recently provoked major disagreements among residents of some of the provinces in Afghanistan under the name of TUTAP electricity project.
Deputy Minister of Water and Energy Amanullah Ghalib declared different major problems are stance against the following National power project, over costing of the project, 28 months delays, and deadline of the Donors will make Afghanistan officials to finalize the following project as soon as possible.”
He also mentioned that Afghanistan Government is committed to ensure electricity for Bamyan residents till 2018.
“Different issues have halted Afghan Government not to implement the Turkmenistan- Afghanistan( TA) electricity project through central provinces, over costing of the project, 28 months of delays,$35 million new power cables should be bought for 80 kilo meters, and the deadline of the donors if we don’t finalize the draft of the project donors will cut their financial aids Deputy Minister of Water and Energy Mr. Ghalib said,”
Meanwhile head of the Afghanistan power department Mirwais Alemi said,” efforts are underway to ensure electricity for Bamyan Province by coming 2018, if we don’t finalize the plan for electricity coming from Turkmenistan we will have to pay $ 50 million damages because the electricity coming from Turkmenistan is much cheaper than Uzbekistan.”
Mp Urfanullah Urfan said,” TA is known as TUTAP among Afghan officials and Nation has taken political shape in it, all Afghans should be convinced, and officials in Ministry of Water and energy and Afghanistan electricity department should do this.”
Officials in Ministry Water and Energy have mentioned that the following electricity project is named TA where cheaper electricity is ensured by Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, but officials and Afghan Nation has mistakenly repeated the word for TUTAP, TUTAP has been drafted and agreement was also signed in between the Turkmenistan, Uzbeckistan,Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan several years ago which it practical work yet to begin.
Reported by Rafi Sediqee
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry said Thursday it has signed cooperation agreements with ten institutions to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, said: “In the implementation of projects, we must pay special attention to our activities and actions and try to make useful use of the projects according to the requirements and benefit the beneficiaries.”
These ten institutions are to present their projects, the total value of which is around over $1.1 million. The projects will be carried out in Kabul, Baghlan, Ghor, Herat, Logar, Nangarhar, Balkh, Badakhshan and Jawzjan provinces and provide direct jobs for about 1,000.
To date, the ministry has signed MoUs for 72 projects in total, collectively valued at about $53.6 million.
These agreements have been signed with domestic and foreign companies for the establishment of small and medium-sized businesses.
In accordance with the principles and laws of the Islamic Emirate and prioritizing the implementation of projects for immigrants and returnees and internally displaced people, the ministry said 635,865 people will benefit through jobs directly and over 4.3 million will benefit indirectly in 25 provinces once these projects are implemented.
The National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) confirmed Tuesday that in the last month of solar year 1402, (March 2024) Afghanistan’s exports totaled $141.1 million and imports totaled $789.6 million.
This was down from $174 million for exports in the same period in 1401. However, imports increased by $99.2 million in 1402, up from $690.4 million.
Most exports in the last month of 1402 went to Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates, while in the last month of 1401 exports went to Pakistan, India and China.
The Ministry of Interior said the governor of Herat province Islam Jar met with Alim Khan Yasin Gildaye, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Afghanistan, to discuss various issues around trade.
According to the ministry, the two sides discussed the expansion of trade facilities, increasing the volume of trade exchanges between traders of the two countries, reducing customs tariffs, solving the challenges of traders and issuing visas to them.
The Afghanistan-Kazakhstan Chamber of Commerce has been opened in Herat in order to facilitate and increase trade between the two countries.
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