Representatives of the World Bank expressed interest in financing the Dasu hydropower project. PHOTO: FILE.
LAHORE:
In a visit to the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) house, representatives of the World Bank expressed interest in financing the Dasu hydropower project and the bank will send an appraisal mission to inspect the progress on the project in March 2013.
The international panel of experts held a meeting with the Wapda Chairman Syed Raghib Shah to discuss their recommendations about the progress on the dam so far.
Shah thanked the World Bank team for showing interest in financing the Dasu hydropower project, adding that the bank had been a reliable partner for construction of various Wapda projects.
Recommendations of the World Bank will be analysed and the dam’s design will be finalised by March.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 12th, 2013.
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