The completion of the project will help people to get rid of power outages crippling their businesses and daily life
KARACHI: One of the major socio-economic issues faced by Pakistan is energy shortage. The incumbent government claims to be solving the problem on a priority basis. For this, mega projects of energy generation have been started and focus is primarily on optimal utilisation of hydropower resources because hydropower is considered one of the cheapest sources of electricity production. Most of us are unfamiliar with the projects initiated by present government and Dasu Dam is one of them. Dasu Dam will be completed in two phases. The first phase will be completed in 2021 and would add 2,100 megawatts of electricity to the national grid. Wapda, Chinese company China Gezhouba Group Company and the World Bank are making maximum efforts to complete the project in the next five years on the Indus River upstream of Dasu Town in Kohistan district of K-P.
The completion of the project will help the people of Pakistan to get rid of power outages crippling their businesses and daily life.
Nazia Jabeen
Published in The Express Tribune, March 11th, 2017.
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