DUSHANBE, September 18, 2015, Asia-Plus /Asia-Plus/ — A school for children of families relocated to Tursunzoda from the Nourobod district (Rasht Valley) under the Roghun dam resettlement program has opened in the Toichi village, the Joura Rahmonov jamoat subordinate to the city of Tursunzoda.
An official ceremony of opening of the school that took place on September 18 was attended by President Emomali Rahmon.
According to the Tajik president’s official website, 571 families were relocated to the Toichi village from the Nourobod district.
The construction of the school began in July 2012 and the Directorate for the Flood Zone of the Roghun Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) spent more than 23.1 million somoni for that project.
In all, the Directorate for Roghun HPP’s Flood Zone has reportedly spent more than 52 million somoni for construction of road, school, water pipeline, power transmission line, first-aid station and other necessary infrastructure in the Toichi village.
The effort to resettle people from the zone that will be flooded behind what is projected to become the world’s tallest dam was launched in 2009. A special government regulation adopted in January 2009 envisaged the moving of an estimated 7,000 families, or about 42,000 people, from 63 villages in the districts of Roghun and Nourobod to Danghara, Tursunzoda, and Darband. According to official reports, 600 families were resettled from the projected reservoir area in 2009, and about 1,000 families were relocated in 2010.
