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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 302, 16 September 1933, Page 21

REMARKABLE POWER SCHEME. The villages of the Punjab in North India will shortly be bright with electricity, the hot mid-day air will be cooled by electric fans, the wheels of industry will move with tte touch of a button, British engineers, with the co-operation of Indians, have been working for over 10 years at thia great scheme in a mountain area where two rivers run parallel, one 3000 ft. above the other. The water in the higher river has been turned into a reservoir, and a tunnel of over two miles allow ,the water to run into the lower river with sufficient force to produce all the electric power needed. The nearest station was 120 miles away, so a small railway was constructed to carry 115,000 tons of material to the foot of the mountain, while a tramway took it up the steep slopes. The iron and steel girders had to be hauled up separately, past projecting rocks. The cables, each weighing nearly 10 tons, were made in Birmingham. Five thousand workers and their families had to be catered for, and houses, Schools and hospitals built. Such is the result of the British genius for colonisation.