Baghlan sugar factory operation restarted

BAGHLAN (Tolo News): Baghlan sugar factory has restarted its operations after construction.

Officials in the opening ceremony of this factory said that with its activation, the work environment will be favorable for more than a thousand technical and service workers.

Abdul Hamid Akhundzada, general director of governmental factories of the Finance Ministry, said: “Companies are being restructured as you are witnessing today. The guidance of the leader of the Islamic Emirate is not about not making development, but creating new factories in order to strengthen the economy.”

The general director of governmental factories said that according to the order of the leader of the Islamic Emirate, all governmental factories which are inactive will be activated.

“The delegations created by the leader of the Islamic Emirate with the aim of creating new factories and renovating the old ones are trying to renovate the factories, and the proposal for a number of new companies have also been approved,” said Ahmad Jan Bilal, general director of coherence and coordination of governmental factories.

Abdul Rahman Haqqani, governor of Baghlan, said: “Now we see that in various parts of Afghanistan the works are ongoing and these kinds of works make us happy.”

A number of workers are happy with the re-operation of this factory and said that the operation of large factories is effective in reducing the unemployment of the country’s citizens.

“They should create such factories so that young people don’t travel abroad and find a living in their own country,” said Salahuddin, a worker.

“We want more factories to be created for unemployed youth and to provide them with work,” said Baz Mohammad, a worker. Baghlan sugar factory started operating in the central Baghlan industrial town in 1319 (solar year), but its activity was stopped in 1370 due to wars and changes in the country.

This factory was reconstructed again in 1385, but after some time, it stopped working again.