AVA - 3.5 Million People Will be Housed in Kabul

The Ministry of Urban Development and Land (MUDL) said that around 3.5 million people will be provided with shelter.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA)_Monitoring, Talking to a press conference on Saturday in Kabul, the acting Minister of Urban Development and Land, Mawlawi Hamdullah Nomani, said that they will bring 540 development projects into effect this year.

The residences will be sold to the citizens based on loans.

"The construction of clinics, schools, universities and mosques are included as main parts, and then the construction of government institutions such as departments of the ministries in the provinces," he said.

Nomani said that it will provide shelter for the displaced people in the towns.

"Every displaced person can contact us or the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation to fill out documents and receive a residence," he said.

"The government has the capacity to use its normal budget or development budget, which is made through domestic income, to implement the projects," said Abdul Naseer Rishtia, an economist.

The work on the Kabul project began many years ago.