Power Project Lights up 400 Houses in Afghanistan's Bamyan  13.12.2005 BAMYAN CITY - Four hundred families in Shiber district of the central Bamyan province have been extended electricity for the first time, officials said on Sunday. Residents of Kaloi village in the Shiber district were receiving 60 kilowatts of power from two water-run turbines funded by the Agha Khan Development Network (AKDN), they added. Engineer Nek Aalam, Regional in charge of the AKDN in Bamyan, told Pajhwok Afghan News the project costing US$150,000 had been launched in early 2003. Mohammad Anwar Wahidi, a resident of Qala-i-Sofaid area, said: "Our far-flung village, as in deed our province, was paid little attention in the past. The power supply to our houses is thus something incredible." The first AKDN-funded power supply scheme in Bamyan was jointly inaugurated by Deputy Governor Mohammad Ibrahim and provincial police chief Gen. Ghulam Ali Wahdat. << | >> |
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