Feasibility report: WAPDA set to initiate study

Wapda has decided to arrange Rs86.7 million from its own resources

LAHORE: The Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) is set to initiate the feasibility study of the Chiniot Dam Project, as it has decided to arrange Rs86.7 million from its own resources, other than that, a sum of Rs50 million is to be provided by the federal government for the purpose. In addition to water storage for agriculture and low-cost hydel electricity generation, the project has significant importance for mitigating floods from River Chenab.  The future water requirements for the industry, likely to be set up in the region in the wake of the discovery of iron, copper and gold reserves in Chiniot, have also increased the significance of the project. The Central Development Working Party in the Planning Commission of Pakistan recently approved PC-II of Chiniot Dam for conducting a feasibility study of the project at a cost of Rs136.7 million.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, April 7^th,  2015.

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