{"id":50314,"date":"2019-03-06T14:23:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=50314"},"modified":"2019-03-06T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:23:26","slug":"descon-gets-contract-for-mohmand-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/descon-gets-contract-for-mohmand-dam.html","title":{"rendered":"DESCON gets contract for Mohmand Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: A Design Engineering Services &amp; Construction Limited-led (DESCON) group on Tuesday formally received an anticipated government contract worth PKR Rs165.523 billion for constructing the Mohmand Dam Hydropower project, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/descon-receives-green-signal-for-mohmand-dam.html\">DESCON receives green signal for Mohmand Dam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Joint Venture (JV) of the China Gezhouba Group Company Limited and DESCON initially submitted a bid worth PKR 183.523 billion for the project.<\/p>\n<p>After a series of negotiations, however, the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) convinced the group to reduce the bid amount. As a result, the Gezhouba-DESCON duo agreed to build the dam at a cost of PKR 165.523 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/russian-firm-offers-to-fund-mohmand-dam.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russian firm offers to fund Mohmand Dam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, civil and electro-mechanical work on the Mohmand Dam project will begin in March 2019. The proposed water scheme will be completed in a timeframe of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mohmand-dam-to-be-built-in-six-years.html\">five years and eight months<\/a>. It will be constructed on River Swat in Mohmand district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: A Design Engineering Services &amp; Construction Limited-led (DESCON) group on Tuesday formally received an anticipated government contract worth PKR Rs165.523 billion for constructing the Mohmand Dam Hydropower project, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0DESCON receives green signal for Mohmand Dam This Joint Venture (JV) of the China Gezhouba Group Company Limited and DESCON initially submitted a bid worth PKR 183.523 billion for the project. After a series of negotiations, however, the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) convinced the group to reduce the bid amount. As a result, the Gezhouba-DESCON duo agreed to build the dam at a cost of PKR 165.523 billion. Read:\u00a0Russian firm offers to fund Mohmand Dam Reportedly, civil and electro-mechanical work on the Mohmand Dam project will begin in March 2019. The proposed water scheme will be completed in a timeframe of five years and eight months. It will be constructed on River Swat in Mohmand district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":45230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10883],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-descon-gets-contract-for-mohmand-dam"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DESCON gets contract for Mohmand Dam - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: A Design Engineering Services &amp; Construction Limited-led (DESCON) group on Tuesday formally received an anticipated government contract\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/descon-gets-contract-for-mohmand-dam.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DESCON gets contract for Mohmand Dam - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: A Design Engineering Services &amp; 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