DUSHANBE, July 30, 2015, Asia-Plus -- President Emomali Rahmon yesterday afternoon visited the Roshtqala district of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).

According to the president’s official website, Emomali Rahmon attended an official commencement of construction of the Sebzor hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in the district.

The Sebzor HPP with capacity of 10 MW is expected to allow meeting the region’s requirements in electricity and exporting electricity to the neighboring areas of Afghanistan.

The hydropower plant that will be built in the Sebzor area of the Mirsaid Mirshakar jamoat some 15 kilometers of Khorog, the capital of Gorno Badakhshan, will generate up to 60 million KWh of electricity per year.  The project costs 180 million somoni.

The Sebzor HPP is expected to provide with electricity new facilities being built in Khorog, including the University of Central Asia (UCA)’s campus in Khorog.

The Sebzor hydropower plant is being constructed within the framework of the program of construction of small hydropower plants at the expense of domestic and foreign investors for the period of 2009-2020, the website says.

Adopted by the Government of Tajikistan in 2009, this program provides for the construction of 189 small hydropower plants with a total capacity of 103.6 MW and generation of 800 million kWh of electricity per year.