ISLAMABAD: WAPDA is developing eight multi-reason super ventures in the water and hydropower areas which will assist with further developing water stockpiling to expand the nation’s food and energy security.
The under-development projects are booked to be finished from 2024 to 2028 in a staged way. An exceptionally positioned official of WAPDA has let The News know that Executive WAPDA Designer Lt Gen Sajjad Ghani (retd) conceived a powerful system of observing and assessment.
On finish of these activities, the water stockpiling limit will increment by 9.7 MAF, adequate to flood 3.5 million sections of land of land.
What’s more, the hydel power age limit of WAPDA will likewise increment by around 10,000 MW ie from 9,500 MW to around 19,500 MW. Furthermore, these ventures are likewise setting out around 35,000 work open doors.
Diamer Basha Dam is being developed across the Indus 40 km downstream of Chilas town of Gilgit Baltistan with a gross water stockpiling limit of 8.1 MAF and an introduced power age limit of 4,500 MW. Mohmand Dam is being worked across Stream Smack in the Ancestral Locale Mohmand of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with a gross water stockpiling limit of 1.2 MAF and a power age limit of 800 MW. This will finish in 2026-27.
Dasu Hydropower Venture Stage-I is being executed across the Indus in Area Upper Kohistan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Its all out age limit is 4,320 MW. Stage I has an introduced power age limit of 2160 MW, which will begin power age in 2026.
Tarbela fifth Expansion Hydropower Task is being developed on the fifth Passage of Tarbela Dam situated in Area Haripur with an introduced age limit of 1530 MW. Power age from the undertaking will begin in 2025. Kurram Tangi Dam Undertaking is being built in the North Waziristan Locale of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. WAPDA is developing the Kurram Tangi Dam Venture in two stages.
Stage-I will flood 16,380 sections of land of land and produce around 18.4 MW of power and is planned for consummation in June 2024. Stage-II will have a gross water stockpiling limit of 1.2 MAF and an introduced power age limit of 65 MW. Kachhi Channel Expansion Task being built in Locale Dera Bugti which will be finished toward the finish of the ongoing year to water one more 30,000 sections of land of land.
Subsequently, the order area of Kachhi Trench Stage I will stretch out to 102,000 sections of land. Nai Gaj Dam is being built across Stream Gaj in Region Dadu of Sindh. It will store 300,000 sections of land feet of water to inundate 28,800 sections of land of land, other than creating 4.2 MW of power. The K-IV Undertaking visualizes an inventory of 650 MGD to Karachi from Keenjhar Lake. WAPDA will build Stage I of the venture, which will give 260 MGD of water to Karachi by October 2024.
