Taliban officials from the ministry of energy and water on Tuesday signed a contract for a power supply project aimed at providing electricity to the Qosh Tepa and Darzab districts in the north of the country.
The contract, signed at a ceremony in Kabul, is valued at 1.886 billion afghanis ($28 million) and will be funded from the Taliban administration’s budget, according to Taliban’s head of renewable energy department, Abdul Rahman Rahmani.
The project was awarded to a domestic company.
Under the agreement, an 85.4-kilometre power transmission line will be constructed from the city of Sheberghan to a 220-kilovolt substation serving the districts of Qosh Tepa and Darzab.
Taliban officials said the project is intended to improve access to electricity in the area, though no completion timeline was announced.
Afghanistan is heavily relied on imported electricity from neighboring countries, including Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
