Mohmand dam to be completed by 2025

WAPDA will spend Rs4.5b on development in project area

LAHORE: Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) Chairman Muzammil Hussain has said that construction work on the multi-purpose Mohmand dam and hydropower project is being carried out day and night and the project is going ahead at a good pace.

“We are confident to complete the project during the high flow season in 2025 as per the timeline,” he stated while talking to a group of journalists at the dam site. The Wapda chairman said Mohmand Dam was the fifth highest concrete-face rock-fill dam (CFRD) in the world.

He revealed that priority land had already been acquired with the support of locals, the district administration of Mohmand and the provincial government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa along with concerted efforts by Wapda, land acquisition and resettlement officers.

'Mohmand dam to be completed in 6 years'

He announced that Rs4.53 billion would be spent on confidence-building measures for socio-economic development of locals in the project area. He appreciated the security forces for enhanced security arrangements, which enabled the project manager to carry out construction work and meet the construction schedule.

“It will store about 1.2 million acre feet of water, generate 800 megawatts of electricity, contribute 2.86 billion units of low-cost hydel electricity to the national grid annually and help mitigate floods in Peshawar, Charsadda and Nowshera,” he said. Besides supplementing 160,000 acres of existing land, about 16,700 acres of new land will be irrigated. 

Published in The Express Tribune, February 16^th, 2020.

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