Amirzai Sangin Inaugurates Three Telecommunication Projects in Ghazni Province
Minister of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT) H. E. Amirzai Sangin leading a delegation visited Ghazni province on Wednesday 22nd January 2014
In this visit Minister Amirzai Sangin inaugurated three (Fiber Optic, Afghan Telecom Digital telephone with 5000 lines and Afghan Telecom DSL) projects in Ghazni province.
H. E. Amirzai Sangin along with his board attended the ceremony, which was held on this occasion and faced warm welcome by the officials and people of Ghazni province,
Then H. E. Sangin appreciated warm welcome of the people and expressed his pleasure saying I am honored to this historic city the Cultural Center of the World and ensured them about concerns beyond 2014.
Engineer Sangin also talked about the growth of telecommunications and IT throughout the country and said: the sector of Communications and IT have basic role and to date it has grown considerably in the past ten years. He added there are 20 million telephone subscribers and over two and a half billion dollars investments in the filled of Telecommunications and Information Technology in our country and the large number of people are provided direct and indirect jobs. He said: annually we deliver over 200 million dollars income to the state treasury. He said: our presence today in the historic city of Ghazni is officially to inaugurate and put in operation three major (Fiber Optic, Digital Telephone and Afghan DSL) projects. He said these three projects have taken 7 million dollars investment. With the opening of these three projects the citizens of Ghazni will have access to better IT and Internet services with reasonable price. Currently, this service is operated only in the Ghazni city and would be extended to the districts of the province in near future.
Then the governor of Ghazni province Mr. Mossa Khan Akbarzada praised the development made in the field of Communications and IT and noted these projects are very important for the people of Ghazni and provincial administration.
After that Senator Mr. Khaliq Daad Blaghi from Ghazni province also appreciated the achievements of MCIT and asked minister Sanging to pay more attention to Ghazni province.
