New Kabul City has been mapped in the north of the capital Kabul while city-dwellers are experiencing the worst sanitation problems every day.
A multi-million dollar project, New Kabul City, is about a half an hour drive north of Kabul and it will accommodate about 1.5 million people when it is completed in 2025.
The new Kabul is estimated to be built at a cost of 34 billion dollars that will be provided by donor countries and organisations. It will be 750 square kilometers wide which is clearly bigger than the present Kabul.
In 2006 President Hamid Karzai took the very first steps of New Kabul City after setting up a board of Afghan and foreign experts to develop a new city to provide additional housing for residents of the capital.
More than 4.5 million people are living in the existing Kabul while it was built for 700,000, said Ghulam Sakhi Hassanzada, deputy chairman of the Independent Board of New Kabul City Development.
“The city we have planned to build could compete with capitals in our neighbouring countries,” Mr Hassanzada said.
The project is expected to create 500,000 jobs, including 100,000 in agriculture, 100,000 in industry and 300,000 in other sectors.
By the completion of first phase of the project 400,000 people will be provided 80,000 housing units.
“The only thing which can possibly stop this is not a good security situation,” Hassanzadah said.
The plan is for international donors and the Afghan government to supply $11 billion over the next 15 to 20 years to help build water and sewer lines, electricity and roads.
This is a very good plan but… the budget for this new city 34 billion is to much.
Mr. Hassanzadah good job.