{"id":12452,"date":"2026-05-07T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/07\/construction-begins-hydroelectric-project-khwahan-badakhshan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:48:05","slug":"construction-begins-hydroelectric-project-khwahan-badakhshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/07\/construction-begins-hydroelectric-project-khwahan-badakhshan\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction Begins on Hydroelectric Project in Khwahan, Badakhshan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The construction of a hydroelectric project in the village of Jirobali, Khwahan district, Badakhshan province, has begun with a total cost of seven million Afghanis, initiated by local residents. This project, driven and funded by the local community, aims to provide electricity to residential areas within the same region.<\/p>\n<p>Khwahan district is one of the mountainous areas of Badakhshan, where many villages have limited access to essential services, including stable electricity. Under such conditions, the implementation of small hydroelectric projects can play a significant role in improving livelihoods and fostering local economic activities.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents, by launching this project, seek to meet some of their basic needs independently; an effort that highlights the vital role of the community in the development of the country\u2019s remote areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local residents in Badakhshan&#8217;s Khwahan district have started building a hydroelectric project to provide stable electricity to the village of Jirobali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}