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Gedu, also transliterated as Gaedu, is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in south-western Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...
. It is located in Chukha District
Chukha District (Dzongkha: ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Chu-kha rdzong-khag''; also spelled "Chhukha") is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. The major town is Phuentsholing which is the gateway city ...
. It is the location of one of the colleges of the Royal University of Bhutan
The Royal University of Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་; Wylie:'' 'brug rgyal-'dzin gtsug-lag-slob-sde''), founded on June 2, 2003, by a royal decree, is the n ...
, Gaedu College of Business Studies.
At the 2005 census, its population was 4,288.
Economy
Theeconomy
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of Gedu is growing quickly largely due to the Tala Hydroelectric Project Authority (THPA) program which started in 1998 and which has drawn substantial migration to Gedu, with thousands of workers looking for jobs.
Infrastructure and facilities have increased since the late 1990s to cater for the new population. Before 1997, the town was a village with no telephone
A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into e ...
s or STD facilities. THPA has constructed over 840 units of apartments in the town and has spent roughly on the buildings including the new high school for 1300 students, sports facilities and a 20-bed hospital with five doctors serving the district.
A total of 122 kilometres of roads were constructed at a cost of about , and 15 bridges in the town and the surrounding area at . There is a new water treatment plant built in the town at the cost of . The plant has a storage capacity of 707,600 litres.
References
Populated places in Bhutan {{Bhutan-geo-stub