Jammu & Kashmir

Energy woes: AJK starts work on power project

Awards contact to a Chinese firm, which will complete the project in 40 months.

Our Correspondent July 06, 2014

MUZAFFARABAD:

To overcome the rising energy crisis in the country, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Power Development Organization (PDO) has awarded the contract of a 48 megawatt Jagran phase-II Hydel power project to a Chinese company. The project will be completed in 40 months.

The Jagran phase –II will be completed with the financial assistance of the AFD’s 68 million euros soft loan. The contract is awarded to China Water and Electricity (CWE) which will jointly with Sachal Engineering Company, a leading construction company of Pakistan.

The project will be constructed at nullah Jagran, a tributary of River Neelum in Kundal Shahi Neelum Valley some 80 kilometres from Muzaffarabad. The project will also provide around 600 job openings in the region.

The AJK has more than 17,000 MWT hydel power generation potential while as 12,000 MWT have been identified by different government and simi-govenment departments in the region so far.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 6^th, 2014.

COMMENTS (1)

Feroza | 10 years ago | Reply Caption of this story gives a wrong impression. The government has just decided, after a long tussle over the issue between two ministers, in favour of one company. Even the work order is yet to be issued, but your caption (wrongly) gives impression as if construction work on the project has been initiated.

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