Prepared by Implementing Agency: State Establishment «Project Management Unit for Electro-Energy Sector» (SE «PMUES») with support of Mercados Aries International -Project Implementation Consultant for the Executing Agency Open Stock Holding Company «Barqi Tojik»(BT), and the Asian Development Bank.

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