{"id":61999,"date":"2020-02-27T12:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T07:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=61999"},"modified":"2020-02-27T12:26:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T07:26:20","slug":"wb-keen-rehabilitate-sukkur-barrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-keen-rehabilitate-sukkur-barrage.html","title":{"rendered":"WB keen to rehabilitate Sukkur Barrage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sukkur: A World Bank (WB) mission, visiting Pakistan to observe the rehabilitation of deteriorating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sukkur-barrage-restoration-to-cost-pkr-25-billion.html\">Sukkur barrage<\/a>, has expressed keen interest in its restoration and rehabilitation, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/census-demanded-sindh-barrage-save-delta-from-destruction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Census demanded on Sindh Barrage to save delta from destruction (opens in a new tab)\">Census demanded on Sindh Barrage to save delta from destruction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The members of the mission appreciated the Sindh Barrages Improvement Project which aims to replace 65 gates of the main barrage and 25 gates of off-taking canals. The Sukkur barrage branches out into seven canals with 1,629 outlets and several minor canals. According to estimates, the barrage provides 70% of the water used for irrigation in the Sindh province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-to-fund-karachi-water-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WB to fund Karachi water projects (opens in a new tab)\">WB to fund Karachi water projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WB has already provided a financial\nassistance of USD 160 million for the replacement of the gates and dragging of\nthe pond area of the barrage. Moreover, the mission also took interest in the\npreservation of local marine life (with special focus on the endangered Indus\nblind dolphins).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mission was headed by task team\nleader Mr Tory Konishi and included water\nresources specialist Francois Onimus, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Consultant\nAhmed Junaid Memon, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sukkur: A World Bank (WB) mission, visiting Pakistan to observe the rehabilitation of deteriorating Sukkur barrage, has expressed keen interest in its restoration and rehabilitation, according to news sources. Read: Census demanded on Sindh Barrage to save delta from destruction The members of the mission appreciated the Sindh Barrages Improvement Project which aims to replace 65 gates of the main barrage and 25 gates of off-taking canals. The Sukkur barrage branches out into seven canals with 1,629 outlets and several minor canals. According to estimates, the barrage provides 70% of the water used for irrigation in the Sindh province. Read: WB to fund Karachi water projects WB has already provided a financial assistance of USD 160 million for the replacement of the gates and dragging of the pond area of the barrage. Moreover, the mission also took interest in the preservation of local marine life (with special focus on the endangered Indus blind dolphins). The mission was headed by task team leader Mr Tory Konishi and included water resources specialist Francois Onimus, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Consultant Ahmed Junaid Memon, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":61988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20385],"tags":[21106,2060,15828,21105,21107],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-development-projects","8":"tag-sindh-barrages-improvement-project","9":"tag-sukkur-barrage","10":"tag-wb","11":"tag-wb-keen-to-rehabilitate-sukkur-barrage","12":"tag-wb-mission","13":"cat-20385-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WB keen to rehabilitate Sukkur Barrage - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"World Bank (WB) mission, visiting Pakistan to observe the rehabilitation of deteriorating Sukkur barrage, has expressed keen interest in its restoration\" \/>\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\/wb-keen-rehabilitate-sukkur-barrage.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WB keen to rehabilitate Sukkur Barrage - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"World Bank (WB) mission, visiting Pakistan to observe the rehabilitation of deteriorating Sukkur barrage, has expressed keen interest in its restoration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-keen-rehabilitate-sukkur-barrage.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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