President Emomali Rahmon yesterday paid a working visit to Darvoz district in Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).
According to the Tajik president’s official website, the purpose of the visit was for the president to get acquainted with the economic situation in the district and the pace of construction of new residential buildings in the area.
The president, in particular, attended a ceremony of commissioning new residential buildings in the Yakhchisor area of the Nulvand jamoat. The houses were built for victims of a July 8 flooding.
Recall, the mudflows that occurred on the Afghan bank of the Panj River on July 8 damaged dozens of houses on both sides of the Tajik-Afghan border and blocked the section of the Dushanbe-Khorog highway between the villages of Shirgovad and Yoged.
The mudflows carrying the mass of slurry with them reportedly blocked the river, forming a lake. The river burst the banks, flooding the Khostav village in GBAO’s Darvoz district.
Twenty-two houses were reportedly damaged by the flooding. No injured was reported. The flooding victims were temporarily housed in tents.
Besides, the president gave go-ahead for construction of a 26-kilometer Shkev-Qalai Khumb section of the Dushanbe-Kulob-Darvoz-Khorog highway yesterday.
The project includes construction of a 22-meter bridge and a 330-meter tunnel.
The project will be implemented under financial support of the Islamic Development Bank, the Saudi Fund for Development, the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED), the Abdu-Dhabi Fund for Development, and the OPEC Fund for International Development.
After that, the president held a meeting with regional administrators of Gorno Badakhshan and residents of Darvoz district, the website said.
