Excerpt from report by Tajik news agency Asia-Plus website

Dushanbe, 12 May: The ways of stepping up the pace of the construction of the Sangtuda-1 hydroelectric power station [in southern Tajikistan] were discussed today at the construction site, the Tajik Energy Ministry has told Asia-Plus.

The source said Vyacheslav Voronin, deputy head of the Unified Energy System of Russia's board of directors, who is in Tajikistan on a visit, and representatives from the Barq-i Tojik [Tajik electricity] joint-stock holding company and contractors took part in the meeting to sum up the results of the construction work carried out this year at this hydroenergy facility.

Some of the contractors are lagging behind the construction timescale by two months. Nearly 40 per cent of the construction work has been accomplished so far.

[Passage omitted: once commissioned, the station is expected to generate 2.7 bn kWh of electricity annually - known facts]