ASADABAD (Pajhwok): The residents of eastern Kunar province say they are happy over the inauguration of a newly-reconstructed Salma Dam in western Herat province and want the government to establish a hydropower plant on the Kunar River.
The Salma Dam, also called Afghan-India friendship dam, was inaugurated jointly by President Ashraf Ghani and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi last week.
A resident of Marawara district of Kunar, Mohammad Shoib Gharwal, said Kunar was a water-rich province, but its land lacked irrigation water and residents lived in dark.
He said the . . .
