At the request of the Government of India (GOI), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved in March 2006 a 4-tranche, $300 million multitranche financing facility (MFF) to help implement the Uttarakhand Power Sector Investment Program (UPSIP). The UPSIP aimed to meet the priority infrastructure requirements identified in Uttarakhand’s roadmap for state energy sector development.
Uttarakhand, in the northern part of India, is one the country’s poorest states. It was created in November 2000 from a split in the state of Uttar Pradesh. At around 2008, its annual per capita electricity consumption was less than half the national average, and economic development was constrained by lack of power supply.
Solomon Islands is a large Melanesian country, composed of 6 big islands, dozens of smaller islands, and several hundreds of islets and atolls. As of 2010, about 80% of its 500,000 people lived in the rural areas, in widely dispersed villages of a few hundred people.
During program preparation, Pakistan’s power system had insufficient capacity to meet growing demand, and electricity was routinely rationed during peak demand.
Sindh is the second most populous province in Pakistan. In 2006, it had a total 38 million people, nearly half of whom lived in the urban areas. Karachi and Hyderabad, the province’s two largest cities, accounted for about 70% of the urban population.
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