AVA - Bidding Opens for Extraction Rights for Small Mines

The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has 18 small mines which are now open for bidding in seven provinces of the country.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA)_Monitoring, Shahabuddin Delawar, acting minister of Mines and Petroleum said that investment in mines can provide work opportunities and progress in the country, and to provide smuggling they supervise the extraction process.

“After today we have three supervisors in every mine, one of them from intelligence, one from that province, and the third one from the mine,” said Shahabuddin Delawar.

According to Delawar In the next five years, Afghanistan will be at the top of countries economically.

“We can say that Afghanistan will be at the top of the countries economically, if this system, and this transparency, this sincerity, remains,” said Shahabuddin Delawar.

Meanwhile, some participants in the bidding process asked the Islamic Emirate to provide an investment field for insider companies in big projects.

“We call on the Islamic Emirate to give all contracts to insider companies if they have the capacity,” said Elyas Hotak, an Investor.

18 mines in Helmand, Faryab, Kabul, Kandahar, Logar, Uruzgan, and Paktia will be handed over to domestic investors for five years.