13th meeting of the Project Steering Committee of Dasu Hydropower Project was convened today in the Ministry of Water Resources. The Minister for Water Resources Mr. Faisal Vawda chaired the meeting whereas the Chief Minister KP Mr. Mahmood Khan was the Co-chair. The meeting was attended by the senior officials of the KP Government, WAPDA and the Federal Ministries of Water Resources, Planning Development and Reform, EAD and Finance. 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. Mr. 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. *****
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