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99pc work on Mangla Dam completed
99pc work on Mangla Dam completed
Sunday, May 30, 2010
By Abid Hussain Shah
MIRPUR (AJK): Almost 99 per cent construction work on Rs101 billion project for raising the countrys second largest reservoir, the Mangla Dam, has been completed, official sources said.
The formal opening of the project will be performed soon after completion of the resettlement of the population displaced due to the raising of the project, they said.
New Mirpur City and four small towns located in Mirpur district will be ready by December this year since the development work in all these new residential resorts, exclusively meant for housing the raising project victims, was in full swing, Khan Abdul Rasheed Bangash, General Manager, WAPDA told The News.
Mangla Dam is being raised by 40 feet from the existing level of 1,202 feet, he said. The existing raising target to the conservational level of 1,242 feet could further be enhanced up to the level of 1,264 feet under a phased programme, he said. WAPDA plans to raise the water level by 1,210 feet this year soon after completion of the first phase of the resettlement of the Mangla Dam victims, he said. The existing Mangla Dam has the age of 200 years.
Around Rs64 billion was allocated for resettlement of over 50,000 victims, the WAPDA general manager said, adding that out of these, Rs40.5 was allocated in compensation for property, Rs11 billion for resettlement and rehabilitation of the affected population at new locations, including new Mirpur Garden City and four small towns, one each at Islamgarh, Siakh, Chakswari and Dadayal.
Soon. electricity production will increase, thanks to all the Pakistanis, who were patient enough to make it through!
99pc work on Mangla Dam completed
Sunday, May 30, 2010
By Abid Hussain Shah
MIRPUR (AJK): Almost 99 per cent construction work on Rs101 billion project for raising the countrys second largest reservoir, the Mangla Dam, has been completed, official sources said.
The formal opening of the project will be performed soon after completion of the resettlement of the population displaced due to the raising of the project, they said.
New Mirpur City and four small towns located in Mirpur district will be ready by December this year since the development work in all these new residential resorts, exclusively meant for housing the raising project victims, was in full swing, Khan Abdul Rasheed Bangash, General Manager, WAPDA told The News.
Mangla Dam is being raised by 40 feet from the existing level of 1,202 feet, he said. The existing raising target to the conservational level of 1,242 feet could further be enhanced up to the level of 1,264 feet under a phased programme, he said. WAPDA plans to raise the water level by 1,210 feet this year soon after completion of the first phase of the resettlement of the Mangla Dam victims, he said. The existing Mangla Dam has the age of 200 years.
Around Rs64 billion was allocated for resettlement of over 50,000 victims, the WAPDA general manager said, adding that out of these, Rs40.5 was allocated in compensation for property, Rs11 billion for resettlement and rehabilitation of the affected population at new locations, including new Mirpur Garden City and four small towns, one each at Islamgarh, Siakh, Chakswari and Dadayal.
Soon. electricity production will increase, thanks to all the Pakistanis, who were patient enough to make it through!
