{"id":78573,"date":"2021-08-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=78573"},"modified":"2021-08-06T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T13:06:09","slug":"development-work-dasu-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/development-work-dasu-dam.html","title":{"rendered":"Development work on Dasu Dam to start this month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mansehra:\u00a0A spokesperson of\u00a0the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) indicated that work on the 4,320 megawatts Dasu dam project may begin as early as August 14, according to press reports.\u00a0The Chinese Ambassador Nong Rong will attend the next meeting and will be briefed on the security measures put in place for Chinese personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-dasu-dam-site.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PM visits Dasu Dam project site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wapda-fund-construction-diamer-bhasha-mohmand-dasu-dams.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WAPDA <\/a>administration decided to involve the Chinese ambassador in order to convince Gezhouba Group Company\u00a0to resume construction work\u00a0on the hydropower project. According to information shared, the construction on the project, which is located in the Upper Kohistan district, was suspended following an incident in the Dasu area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federal government assured the Chinese firm that two platoons of the army have\u00a0been deployed in Upper and Lower Kohistan, as well as the Kolai-Palas areas, to ensure the safety of Chinese workers. In addition, security personnel would be deployed along the Karakoram Highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/dasu-dam-cheques-distributed-to-landowners.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dasu Dam: Cheques distributed to owners for surrendering land<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from that, World Bank (WB) officials visited the Dasu Dam project site to assess security measures. Masroor Naqvi, the project&#8217;s chief engineer, revealed that 10% of the work on the Dasu Dam has been completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mansehra:\u00a0A spokesperson of\u00a0the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) indicated that work on the 4,320 megawatts Dasu dam project may begin as early as August 14, according to press reports.\u00a0The Chinese Ambassador Nong Rong will attend the next meeting and will be briefed on the security measures put in place for Chinese personnel. Read: PM visits Dasu Dam project site The WAPDA administration decided to involve the Chinese ambassador in order to convince Gezhouba Group Company\u00a0to resume construction work\u00a0on the hydropower project. According to information shared, the construction on the project, which is located in the Upper Kohistan district, was suspended following an incident in the Dasu area. The federal government assured the Chinese firm that two platoons of the army have\u00a0been deployed in Upper and Lower Kohistan, as well as the Kolai-Palas areas, to ensure the safety of Chinese workers. In addition, security personnel would be deployed along the Karakoram Highway. Read: Dasu Dam: Cheques distributed to owners for surrendering land Aside from that, World Bank (WB) officials visited the Dasu Dam project site to assess security measures. Masroor Naqvi, the project&#8217;s chief engineer, revealed that 10% of the work on the Dasu Dam has been completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":76319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[47353,20299,47351,7146,47354,25031,47352],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-dasu-dam-project-site","9":"tag-dasu-hydropower-project","10":"tag-development-work-on-dasu-dam-to-start-this-month","11":"tag-hydropower-project","12":"tag-security-measures-at-dasu-dam","13":"tag-water-and-power-development-authority-wapda","14":"tag-work-to-resume-on-dasu-dam","15":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Development work on Dasu Dam to start this month - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A spokesperson of the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) indicated that work on the 4,320 megawatts Dasu dam project may begin....\" \/>\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-work-dasu-dam.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Development work on Dasu Dam to start this month - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A spokesperson of the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) indicated that work on the 4,320 megawatts Dasu dam project may begin....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/development-work-dasu-dam.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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