Govt to felicitate engineers, personnel associated with

Taking note of successful construction of Salma Dam under "difficult" conditions in war-hit Afghanistan, government will felicitate the team of engineers and other personnel involved in the project on June 22 here, a source said today.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will grace the event which is expected to be attended also by an Afghanistan Minister and kin of those Afghan labourers who were killed for working on the project, the source added.
"Our team of engineers and other personnel have achieved a remarkable feat. They completed the work literally in the middle of a war field as attacks were being launched locally on those who were attached to the project.

"Certain anti-development elements in that country were opposed to that project. But our people remained determined and completed the work. Hence, government plans to felicitate them," it said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani had on June 4 jointly inaugurated the Rs 1775-crore dam called Afghan-India Friendship Dam.
The multipurpose project, constructed on Chist-e-Sharif river in Heart province of Afghanistan, is expected to irrigate 75,000 hectares of land and generate 42 mega watt power, besides ensuring water supply and other benefits to local people.
Funded by Indian government, the project work was completed in over 10 years by 1,500 Indian and Afghan engineers and other professionals.

The project was executed and implemented by WAPCOS Ltd, a public sector enterprise under Union Water Resources Ministry.