Dawn: September 30th, 2015. CHITRAL: About 8,000 people of Raman village in Laspur valley of upper Chitral will get electricity before the start of winter season as a small hydropower station built by Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) was commissioned to work here on Tuesday.
Temperature in the Laspur valley and other areas of upper Chitral remains below freezing point during winter.
Accompanied by Aga Khan Foundation chief executive officer Akhtar Iqbal, the Swiss ambassador to Pakistan, Marc George, flew to the village to inaugurate the facility which was financed by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
Speaking on the occasion, the Swiss ambassador expressed his pleasure over completion of the hydropower project with active participation of the local community and said that the project would now improve the standard of life of the people.
“I also belong to a mountainous area like Laspur and know the problems of the people in all sectors of development and feel how electricity is crucial to their uplift and conservation of environment,” he said. He eulogised the role of AKRSP in development of power sector and social organisation process which brought about social cohesion in the area.
Source: Swiss envoy inaugurates hydropower station for Chitral village – Newspaper – DAWN.COM
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If i can recollect correctly AKDN had presented to the govt. of khyber-pakhtunawa plans to generate 400,000mw of electricity that would also feed into the national grid of Pakistan after meeting their requirement for the entire province,but Imran khan just got a second broken home and is busy with election dhandhli to get to the business of generating electricity for the poor masses of NWFP.
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People of Village morder upper chitral total population is 2500 requesting akf pakistan and akrsp chitral for micro hydel project for their village
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