Power crisis: Munda Dam tender to be floated

Project proposed to be constructed 5 km upstream of Munda Headworks in Mohmand Agency on Swat River.

ISLAMABAD: Wapda has floated tenders for conducting a detailed feasibility study of Munda Dam, which will be opened on June 15.

Official sources told APP on Monday that the project was proposed to be constructed 5 km upstream of Munda Headworks in Mohmand Agency on Swat River. Munda Dam is an important hydro electric and storage project, which will generate 740 MW of electricity and irrigate 16,940 acres. Initially, the project started in the private sector and its feasibility report was also prepared.

However, Wapda took over the project when it became an irrigation project. The government is now looking to both, public and private sectors to start the project at the earliest. The sources said that the height of dam would be 213 metres and its gross water storage would be 1.290 million acre s of feet.

The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved a revised Rs648.324 million PC-II for the dam, which will be completed in seven years.



Published in The Express Tribune, May 24^th, 2011.