HPL has carried out rural electrification as well as several rural development works under Jhankre Rural Electrification and Development Project (JREDP) in different phases.

The main objective of JREDP was to improve the quality of life of rural people within the project area by extending the existing rural electrification and development activities for the project period. Upon completion of JREDP the following was achieved:

• It provided access to clean energy to 4,160 households
• Rehabilitation and Upgrading of 630KW Jhankre Mini Hydropower plant
• 66 SMEs were established
• 35,000 people from the project area and adjacent locations have been directly benefited from the construction of basic infrastructures such as toilets/biogas plants, water supply and irrigation schemes, schools and trails, roads and bridges
• 151 women and 47 youths received skill enhancement trainings and empowerment and have access to alternative income generation sources
• Awareness rose among the minority people through Non-formal/Wide litracy program
• Local markets were developed with the help of road access improvement
• Establishment and institutional development of an electric cooperative (KREC)