After the US Army withdrawal, Taliban fighters are moving ahead with military offensives across Afghanistan. Indian development projects are in real danger. Here we have listed some of those projects:
- SALMA DAM: The 42MW Salma Dam is in Herat province. The hydropower and irrigation project was inaugurated in 2016. It is known as the Afghan-India Friendship Dam. It is located on the Hari River.
- ZARANJ-DELARAM HIGHWAY: The 218-km Zaranj-Delaram highway was built by the Border Roads Organisation. Zaranj is located close to Afghanistan’s border with Iran. The $150-million highway goes along the Khash Rud river to Delaram to the northeast of Zaranj, where it connects to a ring road that links Kandahar in the south, Ghazni and Kabul in the east, Mazar-i-Sharif in the north, and Herat in the west.
- PARLIAMENT: The Afghan Parliament in Kabul was built by India at $90 million. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated in 2015.
- Pul-e-Khumri power project: The 220kV DC transmission line from Pul-e-Khumri, capital of Baghlan province to the north of Kabul, was built by Indian contractors and workers also restored telecommunications infrastructure in many provinces.
- Shahtoot Dam: India had concluded with Afghanistan an agreement for the construction of the Shahtoot Dam in Kabul district, which would provide safe drinking water to 2 million residents.
(Source: Indian Express)
