Ahmedabad is a small village in Gilgit Baltistan and their community-run micro hydropower station was built in 2008 by the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme with backing from the United States Department of Agriculture and the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. The Dam produces about 190 kilowatts of electricity an hour, which is enough to supply power to 144 homes in Ahmedabad and nearly 110 in the nearby villages of Sultanabad and Faizabad.
Significantly improving the lifestyles of people of Ahmedabad who previously had to walk miles to fetch firewood, now they can run their businesses day and night without interruption and cook on electric stoves. The plant has also improved education prospects and has slowed deforestation. Cutting landslide risks and using naturally running water the plant is eco friendly, and
has improved the natural environmental balance as more trees are left standing to hold the soil and contributing massively to the global community.
The 350-KVA micro-hydel power station was constructed by the villagers with the technical help of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme and financial assistance of the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF).
The most important segment of the project is that the local community has contributed about 27 per cent of the overall cost incurred on the project.
Ahmedabad is a small village in central Hunza with a population of 1,014 households. The president of the village organisation, Farajuddin, made a presentation about the village and women organisations and various projects completed during the last 20 years.
He said AKRSP had established the village and women organisations (V/WOs) on November 11, 1983. The village and women organisations have about 412 members with a saving of Rs4,969,957.
The organisation has disbursed low interest loans to local community for agriculture, micro-hydel, education and health purposes.
The village and women organisations have completed about 12 different projects of land development, suspension bridge, link roads, irrigation channels, schools, playing ground and other projects with the help of AKRSP and other AKDN agencies.
The organisations have the plan to construct phase-2 of the micro-hydel project as well as establish small cottage industries with the help of the electricity generated through this project.
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