Kabul (BNA) Eng. Nawandish Kabul Mayor and Dr. Sayed Makhdom Raheen Minister of Information and Culture opened the Shirdarwaza Bridge in Kabul.
At the inaugural ceremony Kabul Mayor described the construction projects of the Kabul municipality work on which are being continued and said that today of the 96 on-going projects one of them is the Shirdarwaza bridge that we open today.
Dr. Raheen thanked the Kabul Municipality over its strivings for revival of gardens and Kabul bridges Mohammad Yusuf Etebar head of the office of first vice-president read out the message of the first vice-president on this occasion and called Kabul Municipality’s activities as remarkable.
Another speaker was chairman of UNOPS who talked on the bridge construction.
Present were also Habibullah Shghari senior advisor of the administration of affairs of the Council of Ministers, head of traffic department, head of the police third precinct, and some other local and foreign guests.
The bridge having 16.40 width and 45 m length and its linkage length from one to another road is 150 m is being built with the cost of USD 9, 000,000 with Japanese financial support.
