DUSHANBE, August 13 2013, Asia-Plus — On Tuesday August 13, President Emomali Rahmon attended a groundbreaking ceremony for construction of a new school in the city of Norak that will accommodate 660 pupils, according to the Tajik president’s official website.
Today, President Rahmon will also attend a groundbreaking ceremony for construction of one more school in Norak.
In all, some 70 million somoni have reportedly been provided for construction of these two educational facilities in Norak.
While in Norak, Emomali Rahmon also inaugurated a new five-storey service center that was built by local entrepreneur Murodali Yatimov.
The head of state also attended a ceremony of an official opening of a new covered market in Norak. Construction of this market that consists of two two-storey buildings and one three-storey building was also financed by local entrepreneurs. A total cost of this project is 5.5 million somoni.
Rahmon reportedly also get acquainted with functioning of the private metal-processing enterprise, Tajikgidromontazh.
Today, President Rahmon will also attend the ceremony of reopening of the reconstructed 220-kV outdoor switchyards at the Norak hydroelectric power plant (HPP), the president’s website reported.
The Norak Dam is an earth fill embankment dam on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan. At 300 meters it is currently the tallest dam in the world. Construction of the dam began in 1961 and was completed in 1979, when Tajikistan was still a republic within the Soviet Union. The Norak Dam is uniquely constructed, with a central core of cement forming an impermeable barrier within a 300 meter-high rock and earth fill construction. The volume of the mound is 54 million m³. The dam includes nine hydroelectric generating units, the first commissioned in 1972 and the last in 1979.
A total of nine hydroelectric turbines are installed in the Norak Dam. Originally having a generating capacity of 300 megawatts each (2,700 megawatts total), they have since been redesigned and retrofitted such that they now combine to produce 3,000 megawatts.
