KHOROG, December 12, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- Federally funded organizations in Gorno Badakhshan, which is the poorest province of Tajikistan, have transferred some 100,000 somoni (TJS) to help construction of the Roghun hydroelectric power plant (HPP).

Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, Mirzojon Mirzojonov, the deputy head of the GBAO main finance directorate, said that employees of federally funded organizations and enterprises in the region had given up their one-day’s wages to help Roghun’s construction.

According to him, remittance of voluntary donations by employees of state-run enterprises is continuing.