Construction work on 47 schools, costing about five million dollars, began in the southeastern Khost province on Monday Oct. 1st.

Aziz Ahmad Hashmi, director education department, told AfghanMania the schools would be built in Alisher and Tani districts at the cost of $4.7 million by the end of the current year.

Khost Governor Arsala Jamal laid the foundation of five primary schools in Tani and one in Alisher. Addressing gathering in Tani, he announced: “Forty-seven schools will be constructed with the help of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) by the end of the current year”.

Meanwhile, construction work on two primary schools was launched by the UNICEF in Gardez and Ahmadabad districts of the Paktia province. The foundation stone of the school was laid on Monday by Governor Rahmatullah Rahmat.

Education Director Mehrabuddin Shafaq said the schools would be constructed at the cost of $100,000 in three months. He said each school would have 14 classrooms and administrative sections. Work on 21 primary and middle schools is underway in Paktia, where 30 other such projects are on the boil.