The Economic Deputy Office of the Prime Minister stated that, over the past two years, the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development has completed 64 alternative check dam projects across various provinces of the country.
According to the office’s press release to Bakhtar News Agency, during the solar years 1402 and 1403 (March 2023 to March 2025), the ministry completed 64 agricultural projects including irrigation canals, water reservoirs, dams, and retaining walls in eight provinces.
The report adds that these projects, funded by the Islamic Emirate’s budget, were implemented at a cost of approximately 97 million Afghanis in Baghlan, Balkh, Parwan, Paktia, Zabul, Kapisa, Kunduz, and Nuristan, and are now in use.
The goal of these alternative check dam projects was to provide drinking water, deliver irrigation water to agricultural lands, and protect homes and farmland from floods. Thousands of people benefited from the projects, both directly and indirectly, through job opportunities.
Meanwhile, over the past two years, the ministry has also completed 79 concrete, stone, and soil-based check dams in Badghis, Zabul, Baghlan, Sar-e-Pol, Farah, Kunduz, Balkh, Herat, Nimroz, and Paktia, at a cost of over 317 million Afghanis from the budget of the Islamic Emirate.
