Revival of 1902 built Mohra HEP delights Baramulla

The administration’s recent decision to revive and rekindle the Jammu and Kashmir’s first Hydro Electric Project (HEP), one of the oldest hydel power plant in South Asia, Mohra (also spelled as Mahura) power house, has delighted the people of Kashmir in general and of Baramulla in particular.

Built in the year 1902 on the left bank of river Jhelum at Boniyar in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district and commissioned in the year 1905, by the then monarch of Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh, by hiring the services of Canada born engineer, Major Alian de Litbniere, the MahuraHydro electric project was built with unique and rare features, which include 11 km long wooden flume as water conductor.