The Dasu project steering committee held its 13th meeting which was presided over by Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda chaired the meeting whereas the Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Mahmood Khan was the co-chair. The meeting was attended by the senior officials of the KP government, Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) and officials of Planning Development and Reform, Economic Affairs Division Finance, says a press release issued here on Wednesday.

The main agenda of the meeting was to resolve and expedite the long stalled process of land acquisition. In compliance of the last meeting, the SMBR of KP government presented a comprehensive report on the possible options, to expedite the land acquisition, based on the consultations with the dam affectees.

Vawda directed the project team to speed up land acquisition for hydropower project and showed full support to remove all hurdles therein. He said that building of dams is among top priorities of the current government contrary to the last 50 years where no government took this matter seriously.

Dasu Hydropower project will have total installed capacity of 4,320 Mega watts of electricity with 12 generating units and is among the priority projects under the National Water Policy.-PR

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019