{"id":63578,"date":"2020-04-05T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63578"},"modified":"2020-04-03T19:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:20:54","slug":"govt-award-diamer-bhasha-dams-construction-contract-few-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-award-diamer-bhasha-dams-construction-contract-few-weeks.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt to award Diamer Bhasha Dam&#8217;s construction contract in few weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The federal government is expected to award the Diamer Basha\nDam &amp; Allied Structures\u2019 contract within a few weeks&#8217; time, a news source\nreported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the publication, Minister for Planning Asad Umar chaired a meeting to review the progress of the Diamer Basha Dam. The meeting was informed that the project had incurred expenses worth PKR 99.238 billion till February, including PKR 93.9 billion for acquiring land for the development of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-govt-releases-zakat-funds-in-all-districts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"KP govt releases Zakat funds in all districts to provide assistance amid pandemic (opens in a new tab)\">KP govt releases Zakat funds in all districts to provide assistance amid pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was also informed that a supplementary PKR 21 billion grant was needed to complete the land acquisition and some relevant construction work. It was also informed that the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) planned to assign the contract for the Diamer Basha Dam &amp; Allied Structures within the coming few weeks. WAPDA plans to initiate the construction work for the dam within the current financial year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-seek-help-volunteers-fight-against-corornavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"KP to seek help of volunteers in fight against corornavirus (opens in a new tab)\">KP to seek help of volunteers in fight against corornavirus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Located on the Indus River near Chilas in Gilgit-Baltistan and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-procure-masks-ventilators-contain-coronavirus-pandemic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) (opens in a new tab)\">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)<\/a>, the Diamer Basha Dam Project is estimated to cost a total of USD 14 billion funds. The dam is expected to produce 4500 megawatts (MW) of power, and will have a gross water capacity of 8.1 million acre-feet (MAF). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal government is expected to award the Diamer Basha Dam &amp; Allied Structures\u2019 contract within a few weeks&#8217; time, a news source reported. As per the publication, Minister for Planning Asad Umar chaired a meeting to review the progress of the Diamer Basha Dam. The meeting was informed that the project had incurred expenses worth PKR 99.238 billion till February, including PKR 93.9 billion for acquiring land for the development of the project. Read: KP govt releases Zakat funds in all districts to provide assistance amid pandemic The meeting was also informed that a supplementary PKR 21 billion grant was needed to complete the land acquisition and some relevant construction work. It was also informed that the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) planned to assign the contract for the Diamer Basha Dam &amp; Allied Structures within the coming few weeks. WAPDA plans to initiate the construction work for the dam within the current financial year. Read: KP to seek help of volunteers in fight against corornavirus Located on the Indus River near Chilas in Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the Diamer Basha Dam Project is estimated to cost a total of USD 14 billion funds. The dam&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":63581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15013,20385,15017],"tags":[25032,25025,25030,25029,25031],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-construction","8":"category-development-projects","9":"category-notices-announcements","10":"tag-chilas-in-gilgit-baltistan","11":"tag-diamer-basha-dam","12":"tag-diamer-basha-dam-allied-structures","13":"tag-minister-for-planning-asad-umar","14":"tag-water-and-power-development-authority-wapda","15":"cat-15013-id","16":"cat-20385-id","17":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt to award Diamer Bhasha Dam&#039;s construction contract - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The federal government is expected to award the Diamer Basha Dam &amp; 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