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After much delay Diamer-Bhasha dam wins approval
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday approved the construction of Diamer-Basha Dam at an initial estimated cost of Rs625 billion. It will mostly be funded through local resources after international financial institutions and China showed reluctance to help the country build the reservoir.
The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) cleared the project for the final approval of Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC), according to the Ministry of Planning and Development. Headed by Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Sartaj Aziz, the CDWP also cleared the Rs303 billion Mohmand Dam Hydropower Project for the final approval of the ECNEC.
With a cumulative cost of Rs928 billion, these projects will help the country address two serious issues – water shortage and power generation. The Mohmand Dam project will have power generation capacity of 800 megawatts. Diamer-Basha Dam project is only being built as a water reservoir for now, as the government initially excluded the power generation component, which would cost another Rs744 billion.
The total cumulative cost of Diamer-Basha Dam will be minimum Rs1.4 trillion once power generation facilities are accounted for.
This is very big decision and the government will fund the dam by providing money from the budget, while the Water and Power Development Authority will arrange commercial financing, Aziz told The Express Tribune. He said that under the new Water Policy, the Planning Commission has recommended enhancing the water sector allocations and the funds required for the construction of the dam can easily be provided.
The government will be required to provide around Rs48 billion per annum for the construction of the dam.
The federal government will provide Rs370.2 billion from the budget in a grant, which will cover 57% of the cost. Wapda will raise Rs115.9 billion from its own sources as an equity investment, and the authorities will borrow Rs163.3 billion in commercial loans, according to the project document.
In past 17 years, almost every head of state and the government has performed the groundbreaking ceremony of the project but civil work could not begin due to lack of financial resources.
Out of the total Rs625 billion total cost, which includes interest during construction, the local rupee component is Rs472 billion and Rs153.2 billion is the foreign exchange component to be arranged from abroad. The project will be completed in five years.
An amount of Rs138 billion has been separately approved for land acquisition and resettlement. Most of this work has already been done and the government has spent Rs58.3 billion on land acquisition. An amount of Rs53.5 billion has additionally been approved for resettlement.
An amount of Rs269 billion has been approved for civil works. The Karakorum Highway (KKH) relocation will cost Rs56.9 billion.
The Council of Common Interests –the highest constitutional body dealing with Centre and provinces issues, unanimously approved the Diamer-Basha Dam project in July 2010.
The project has been divided into two parts to reduce the size of the project and financing requirements after World Bank, Asian Development Bank and China refused to fund the project. Pakistan has been struggling to raise money from international institutions amid Indian opposition to the project.
Pakistan had withdrawn its request to include the Rs1.4 trillion Diamer-Bhasha Dam in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework after Beijing placed strict conditions including ownership of the project, according to Wapda Chairman Muzammil Hussain on Tuesday. “Chinese conditions for financing Diamer-Bhasha Dam were not doable and against our interests,” said Hussain while briefing the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in November.
In order to facilitate early implementation of the project, WAPDA has been entrusted to have overall control and implementation responsibility of the project. The WAPDA will be responsible for dam construction and the National Highway Authority has been tasked to relocate parts of the Karakoram Highway that will submerge in the water.
The project will contribute to the alleviation of acute water shortages in the Indus Basin Irrigation System caused by progressive siltation of existing reserves. After the completion of the dam, the storage capability of Pakistan will increase from 30 days to 48 days.
The powerhouse, when completed, is expected to add 4,500 megawatts of electricity generation capacity.
Pakistan has not built any major water reservoir since Tarbela Dam and Mangla Dam were built in the 1960s.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday approved the construction of Diamer-Basha Dam at an initial estimated cost of Rs625 billion. It will mostly be funded through local resources after international financial institutions and China showed reluctance to help the country build the reservoir.
The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) cleared the project for the final approval of Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC), according to the Ministry of Planning and Development. Headed by Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Sartaj Aziz, the CDWP also cleared the Rs303 billion Mohmand Dam Hydropower Project for the final approval of the ECNEC.
With a cumulative cost of Rs928 billion, these projects will help the country address two serious issues – water shortage and power generation. The Mohmand Dam project will have power generation capacity of 800 megawatts. Diamer-Basha Dam project is only being built as a water reservoir for now, as the government initially excluded the power generation component, which would cost another Rs744 billion.
The total cumulative cost of Diamer-Basha Dam will be minimum Rs1.4 trillion once power generation facilities are accounted for.
This is very big decision and the government will fund the dam by providing money from the budget, while the Water and Power Development Authority will arrange commercial financing, Aziz told The Express Tribune. He said that under the new Water Policy, the Planning Commission has recommended enhancing the water sector allocations and the funds required for the construction of the dam can easily be provided.
The government will be required to provide around Rs48 billion per annum for the construction of the dam.
The federal government will provide Rs370.2 billion from the budget in a grant, which will cover 57% of the cost. Wapda will raise Rs115.9 billion from its own sources as an equity investment, and the authorities will borrow Rs163.3 billion in commercial loans, according to the project document.
In past 17 years, almost every head of state and the government has performed the groundbreaking ceremony of the project but civil work could not begin due to lack of financial resources.
Out of the total Rs625 billion total cost, which includes interest during construction, the local rupee component is Rs472 billion and Rs153.2 billion is the foreign exchange component to be arranged from abroad. The project will be completed in five years.
An amount of Rs138 billion has been separately approved for land acquisition and resettlement. Most of this work has already been done and the government has spent Rs58.3 billion on land acquisition. An amount of Rs53.5 billion has additionally been approved for resettlement.
An amount of Rs269 billion has been approved for civil works. The Karakorum Highway (KKH) relocation will cost Rs56.9 billion.
The Council of Common Interests –the highest constitutional body dealing with Centre and provinces issues, unanimously approved the Diamer-Basha Dam project in July 2010.
The project has been divided into two parts to reduce the size of the project and financing requirements after World Bank, Asian Development Bank and China refused to fund the project. Pakistan has been struggling to raise money from international institutions amid Indian opposition to the project.
Pakistan had withdrawn its request to include the Rs1.4 trillion Diamer-Bhasha Dam in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework after Beijing placed strict conditions including ownership of the project, according to Wapda Chairman Muzammil Hussain on Tuesday. “Chinese conditions for financing Diamer-Bhasha Dam were not doable and against our interests,” said Hussain while briefing the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in November.
In order to facilitate early implementation of the project, WAPDA has been entrusted to have overall control and implementation responsibility of the project. The WAPDA will be responsible for dam construction and the National Highway Authority has been tasked to relocate parts of the Karakoram Highway that will submerge in the water.
The project will contribute to the alleviation of acute water shortages in the Indus Basin Irrigation System caused by progressive siltation of existing reserves. After the completion of the dam, the storage capability of Pakistan will increase from 30 days to 48 days.
The powerhouse, when completed, is expected to add 4,500 megawatts of electricity generation capacity.
Pakistan has not built any major water reservoir since Tarbela Dam and Mangla Dam were built in the 1960s.
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Akhori dam
The proposed Akhori dam project will store about 8.6 billion cubic metres (seven million acres feet) of surplus Indus River water that is spilled after filling Tarbela reservoir during the monsoon season.
The stored water will be released for mitigating irrigation shortages during the dry season. The project is quite simple and includes a gated intake structure, a 37-km long water conveyance channel, a reservoir, a hydropower station, a spillway, dams and ancillary works.
The reservoir, called Akhori reservoir, will be developed by constructing dams across a valley near Akhori village. The valley is situated between Attock and Fatehjang towns, on the left bank of the Haro River at an approximate distance of 40 kilometres west of Islamabad. Detailed feasibility studies of the project have confirmed its technical and economic viability.
The intake structure will be designed for supplying the water from Tarbela to Akhori reservoir and it will be constructed on the southern periphery of Tarbela reservoir. The intake will function as an additional spillway of Tarbela that will release the water into the conveyance channel for delivering to and storing in Akhori reservoir.
The invert or sill of the intake structure will be at the same level as the crest of two existing spillways of Tarbela. The hydropower station will be designed for harnessing the hydro energy of the stored water before it is released from Akhori reservoir into the Haro River. The released water will join the Indus River downstream of Ghazi Barotha hydropower station.
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Cost estimate $1.6 billion.
The proposed Akhori dam project will store about 8.6 billion cubic metres (seven million acres feet) of surplus Indus River water that is spilled after filling Tarbela reservoir during the monsoon season.
The stored water will be released for mitigating irrigation shortages during the dry season. The project is quite simple and includes a gated intake structure, a 37-km long water conveyance channel, a reservoir, a hydropower station, a spillway, dams and ancillary works.
The reservoir, called Akhori reservoir, will be developed by constructing dams across a valley near Akhori village. The valley is situated between Attock and Fatehjang towns, on the left bank of the Haro River at an approximate distance of 40 kilometres west of Islamabad. Detailed feasibility studies of the project have confirmed its technical and economic viability.
The intake structure will be designed for supplying the water from Tarbela to Akhori reservoir and it will be constructed on the southern periphery of Tarbela reservoir. The intake will function as an additional spillway of Tarbela that will release the water into the conveyance channel for delivering to and storing in Akhori reservoir.
The invert or sill of the intake structure will be at the same level as the crest of two existing spillways of Tarbela. The hydropower station will be designed for harnessing the hydro energy of the stored water before it is released from Akhori reservoir into the Haro River. The released water will join the Indus River downstream of Ghazi Barotha hydropower station.
600 MW Capacity
Cost estimate $1.6 billion.
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Kurram Tangi Dam Under Construction in FATA
Kurram Tangi Dam is a multipurpose mega project, which includes power generation as well irrigation components. It will also develop and uplift the ground water table of the area. It will have positive environmental affects.
Kurram Tangi Dam is a multipurpose mega project, which includes power generation as well irrigation components. It will also develop and uplift the ground water table of the area. It will have positive environmental affects.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday gave a final go-ahead to the construction of Diamer-Bhasha dam at an estimated cost of Rs474 billion aimed at increasing the country’s depleting water storage capacity.
Headed by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) approved five mega projects at the total cost of Rs504 billion.
The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) had cleared the Diamer-Bhasha dam at a cost of Rs625 billion. Subsequently, the planning ministry excluded the land component and construction of a colony from the dam cost, bringing the price tag down to Rs474 billion.
The dam will have a 6.4 million acres feet live storage capacity and an installed power capacity of 4,500 megawatt, according to an announcement by the Prime Minister Office.
However, the power house component will be approved separately and the Rs474 billion cost is meant for building the reservoir.
On completion, the project will increase national water storage capacity from 38 days to 45 days and enhance life span on downstream reservoirs, including the Tarbela Dam, said the PM Office.
The project will also increase the Dasu hydropower project efficiency by 28%, according to a planning ministry official.
The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) informed the prime minister that land issues have to be sorted out before starting the construction of the dam, according to the officials.
Successive governments have given Rs138 billion for land acquisition and resettlement. Most of this work has already been done and the government has spent Rs58.3 billion on land acquisition. An amount of Rs53.5 billion has additionally been approved for resettlement.
In the past 17 years, almost every head of the state and the government has performed the groundbreaking ceremony of the project but civil work could not begin due to lack of financial resources.
For the next fiscal year, the government has proposed an allocation of Rs18 billion for the construction of the dam.
For water sector, the government has proposed an allocation of Rs59 billion which is far lower than Rs100 billion being proposed in the National Water Policy.
The Council of Common Interests – the highest constitutional body dealing with the issues between the Centre and the provinces – unanimously approved the Diamer-Bhasha dam project in July 2010.
The project has been divided into two parts to reduce its size and financing requirements after the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and China refused to fund the project. Pakistan has been struggling to raise money from international institutions amid Indian opposition to the project.
In order to facilitate early implementation of the project, Wapda has been entrusted to have an overall control and implementation responsibility of the project.
Wapda will be responsible for dam construction and the National Highway Authority has been tasked with relocating parts of the Karakoram Highway that would be submerged in water.
The project will contribute towards alleviation of acute water shortages in the Indus Basin Irrigation System caused by progressive siltation of existing reserves.
After much delay Diamer-Bhasha dam wins approval
The powerhouse, when completed, is expected to enhance power generation capacity by 4,500 megawatt. Pakistan has not built any major water reservoir since Tarbela Dam and Mangla Dam were built in the 1960s.
Headed by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) approved five mega projects at the total cost of Rs504 billion.
The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) had cleared the Diamer-Bhasha dam at a cost of Rs625 billion. Subsequently, the planning ministry excluded the land component and construction of a colony from the dam cost, bringing the price tag down to Rs474 billion.
The dam will have a 6.4 million acres feet live storage capacity and an installed power capacity of 4,500 megawatt, according to an announcement by the Prime Minister Office.
However, the power house component will be approved separately and the Rs474 billion cost is meant for building the reservoir.
On completion, the project will increase national water storage capacity from 38 days to 45 days and enhance life span on downstream reservoirs, including the Tarbela Dam, said the PM Office.
The project will also increase the Dasu hydropower project efficiency by 28%, according to a planning ministry official.
The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) informed the prime minister that land issues have to be sorted out before starting the construction of the dam, according to the officials.
Successive governments have given Rs138 billion for land acquisition and resettlement. Most of this work has already been done and the government has spent Rs58.3 billion on land acquisition. An amount of Rs53.5 billion has additionally been approved for resettlement.
In the past 17 years, almost every head of the state and the government has performed the groundbreaking ceremony of the project but civil work could not begin due to lack of financial resources.
For the next fiscal year, the government has proposed an allocation of Rs18 billion for the construction of the dam.
For water sector, the government has proposed an allocation of Rs59 billion which is far lower than Rs100 billion being proposed in the National Water Policy.
The Council of Common Interests – the highest constitutional body dealing with the issues between the Centre and the provinces – unanimously approved the Diamer-Bhasha dam project in July 2010.
The project has been divided into two parts to reduce its size and financing requirements after the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and China refused to fund the project. Pakistan has been struggling to raise money from international institutions amid Indian opposition to the project.
In order to facilitate early implementation of the project, Wapda has been entrusted to have an overall control and implementation responsibility of the project.
Wapda will be responsible for dam construction and the National Highway Authority has been tasked with relocating parts of the Karakoram Highway that would be submerged in water.
The project will contribute towards alleviation of acute water shortages in the Indus Basin Irrigation System caused by progressive siltation of existing reserves.
After much delay Diamer-Bhasha dam wins approval
The powerhouse, when completed, is expected to enhance power generation capacity by 4,500 megawatt. Pakistan has not built any major water reservoir since Tarbela Dam and Mangla Dam were built in the 1960s.
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Land acquisition for Mohmand dam set to begin
LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has decided to immediately start land acquisition for the multi-purpose Mohm*and Dam Hydropower Project.
The political agent of the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) has also been instructed by the authority to establish a project management unit that would exclusively work on land acquisition in Mohmand Agency and adjoining areas, it is learnt.
The concrete-faced rock-fill type dam project with storage capacity of 1.293 million acres feet (MAF) is planned to be constructed on River Awat situated nearly five-km upstream of Munda Head Works in Mohmand Agency.
It has a height of 700 feet. Once completed, the project will help control floods in Charsadda, Nowshera and Peshawar and irrigate about 17,000 acres of agricultural land. It will have power generation capacity of 800MW, according to Wapda. It’s original PC1 cost is Rs938m.
“We need as many as 1,000 acres (8,000 kanals) for the project. Of total 1,000 acres, we immediately require 260 acres for setting up the camp offices by the contractors, construction of two periphery roads and some other administrative, functional and logistic arrangements ahead of initiating the civil work on the project.
Therefore, we have decided to first acquire this piece of land by end of August this year,” a senior Wapda official explained while talking to Dawn on Tuesday.
“We have also asked the political agent concerned to immediately start work on establishing a project management unit (PMU) by hiring the relevant staff having expertise on land acquisition, revenue related matters. Hopefully they (the Fata Admin) would send us a brief on this proposed structure/unit by next week,” he added.
Wapda considers Mohmand Dam a most important project that will contribute more than three billion units of electricity to the national grid every year.
Under the plan, the work on the project was to be commenced and completed in June 2012 and September 2016 respectively. However, due to various issues including non-availability of funds, the project’s execution faced a massive delay of six years. However, last month the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) approved Rs309.50 billion for this project.
LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has decided to immediately start land acquisition for the multi-purpose Mohm*and Dam Hydropower Project.
The political agent of the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) has also been instructed by the authority to establish a project management unit that would exclusively work on land acquisition in Mohmand Agency and adjoining areas, it is learnt.
The concrete-faced rock-fill type dam project with storage capacity of 1.293 million acres feet (MAF) is planned to be constructed on River Awat situated nearly five-km upstream of Munda Head Works in Mohmand Agency.
It has a height of 700 feet. Once completed, the project will help control floods in Charsadda, Nowshera and Peshawar and irrigate about 17,000 acres of agricultural land. It will have power generation capacity of 800MW, according to Wapda. It’s original PC1 cost is Rs938m.
“We need as many as 1,000 acres (8,000 kanals) for the project. Of total 1,000 acres, we immediately require 260 acres for setting up the camp offices by the contractors, construction of two periphery roads and some other administrative, functional and logistic arrangements ahead of initiating the civil work on the project.
Therefore, we have decided to first acquire this piece of land by end of August this year,” a senior Wapda official explained while talking to Dawn on Tuesday.
“We have also asked the political agent concerned to immediately start work on establishing a project management unit (PMU) by hiring the relevant staff having expertise on land acquisition, revenue related matters. Hopefully they (the Fata Admin) would send us a brief on this proposed structure/unit by next week,” he added.
Wapda considers Mohmand Dam a most important project that will contribute more than three billion units of electricity to the national grid every year.
Under the plan, the work on the project was to be commenced and completed in June 2012 and September 2016 respectively. However, due to various issues including non-availability of funds, the project’s execution faced a massive delay of six years. However, last month the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) approved Rs309.50 billion for this project.
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we need a seprate ministery to build dams and water resources . wapda utterly failed . also we need a company like FWO speacially with full equpment to build dams all over paksitan store water as much as possible . otherwise no future of paksitan .
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WAPDA HAD DONE A GOOD JOB. its the GOP ... wapda has came uo with several feasibility and even financing option but GOP simply throws them in dustbin...
it didnt allow WAPDA to issue bonds , didnt allow it to take loans, didnt allow it charge actual cost on its electricity produced ...
WAPDA was told to build dam with 100% financing or grants from WB/AB
so in the end it built mangla extention(100% foreign aid ) and tarbela IV (95% WB)
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Kalah Bagh is what we need among others so much dirty politics and people not loyal to pakistan
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KARACHI: The refurbishment work on 1,000 megawatts of Mangla hydropower plants by General Electric (GE) is set for completion within the next five years.
GE refurbishment work would help increase Mangla power generation capacity by around 35 percent, reported The News.
The project is being jointly funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and French development agency.
Mangla’s refurbishment is set to be concluded by 2023, at a cost of Rs15 billion, said Sarim Sheikh, Chief Executive officer (CEO) of GE Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
He added after the conclusion of the refurbishment work, the plants would be able to generate 35 percent more electricity using the same amount of water.
This is part of Water and Power Development Authority’s (Wapda) plan to raise the share of low-cost hydropower generation in national grid and maximize share of it.
The Mangla power station is situated in Kashmir and has an installed capacity of 1,000MW.
The present station constitutes ten generating units, with a capacity of 100 megawatts each and useful life of thirty-years, protractible up to thirty-five years.
Its first unit got commissioned in 1967 and every unit there has been working efficiently and generating electricity according to its installed capacity despite crossing its useful life a long time ago.
Mr Sheikh shared the latest technology was being utilized to optimize generation capacity of Mangla hydropower project and the same amount of water used to generate 1,000 megawatts would be enough to generate 1,300 MW.
He said the company was increasing its footprint in renewable, coal, gas and hydropower across Pakistan.
40 percent of Pakistan’s total electricity generation is expected to be produced by General Electric.
“Pakistan’s generation capacity will stand at around 35,000 MW by 2019; of which 14,000 MW would be generated through GE equipment,” the company’s executive added.
GE refurbishment work would help increase Mangla power generation capacity by around 35 percent, reported The News.
The project is being jointly funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and French development agency.
Mangla’s refurbishment is set to be concluded by 2023, at a cost of Rs15 billion, said Sarim Sheikh, Chief Executive officer (CEO) of GE Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
He added after the conclusion of the refurbishment work, the plants would be able to generate 35 percent more electricity using the same amount of water.
This is part of Water and Power Development Authority’s (Wapda) plan to raise the share of low-cost hydropower generation in national grid and maximize share of it.
The Mangla power station is situated in Kashmir and has an installed capacity of 1,000MW.
The present station constitutes ten generating units, with a capacity of 100 megawatts each and useful life of thirty-years, protractible up to thirty-five years.
Its first unit got commissioned in 1967 and every unit there has been working efficiently and generating electricity according to its installed capacity despite crossing its useful life a long time ago.
Mr Sheikh shared the latest technology was being utilized to optimize generation capacity of Mangla hydropower project and the same amount of water used to generate 1,000 megawatts would be enough to generate 1,300 MW.
He said the company was increasing its footprint in renewable, coal, gas and hydropower across Pakistan.
40 percent of Pakistan’s total electricity generation is expected to be produced by General Electric.
“Pakistan’s generation capacity will stand at around 35,000 MW by 2019; of which 14,000 MW would be generated through GE equipment,” the company’s executive added.
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