{"id":51276,"date":"2019-04-12T13:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T08:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=51276"},"modified":"2019-04-12T13:30:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T08:30:32","slug":"development-of-diamer-bhasha-dam-to-start-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/development-of-diamer-bhasha-dam-to-start-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Development of Diamer-Bhasha dam to start this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Lt Gen (retired) Muzammil Hussain has said that construction work on Diamer-Bhasha dam will commence this year, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/diamer-bhasha-dams-land-acquisition-done-by-86.html\">Diamer-Bhasha dam&#8217;s land acquisition done by 86%<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He expressed his views on the matter during a meeting with a delegation of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) in Lahore on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that construction of dams and new water facilities was the need of the hour as 20 million acres of barren land could be irrigated by enhancing the country\u2019s water storage capacities.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the construction of additional dams would lead to the strengthening of agriculture sector and the country would be able to achieve food security besides adding low-cost hydroelectricity to the national grid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pkr-4-73-billion-released-for-diamer-bhasha-dam.html\">PKR 4.73 billion released for Diamer-Bhasha dam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The WAPDA chief stressed the need to implement National Water Policy in letter and spirit. For this purpose, he urged all stakeholders &#8211; including LCCI &#8211; to play their part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Lt Gen (retired) Muzammil Hussain has said that construction work on Diamer-Bhasha dam will commence this year, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0Diamer-Bhasha dam&#8217;s land acquisition done by 86% He expressed his views on the matter during a meeting with a delegation of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) in Lahore on Thursday. He said that construction of dams and new water facilities was the need of the hour as 20 million acres of barren land could be irrigated by enhancing the country\u2019s water storage capacities. He said that the construction of additional dams would lead to the strengthening of agriculture sector and the country would be able to achieve food security besides adding low-cost hydroelectricity to the national grid. Read:\u00a0PKR 4.73 billion released for Diamer-Bhasha dam The WAPDA chief stressed the need to implement National Water Policy in letter and spirit. For this purpose, he urged all stakeholders &#8211; including LCCI &#8211; to play their part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":18214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11277],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-development-of-diamer-bhasha-dam-to-start-this-year"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Development of Diamer-Bhasha dam to start this year - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Lt Gen (retired) Muzammil Hussain has said that construction work on Diamer-Bhasha dam will\" \/>\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\/development-of-diamer-bhasha-dam-to-start-this-year.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Development of Diamer-Bhasha dam to start this year - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Lt Gen (retired) Muzammil Hussain has said that construction work on Diamer-Bhasha dam will\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/development-of-diamer-bhasha-dam-to-start-this-year.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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