Islamabad: The Senate Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Reforms has issued directives to the ministry concerned to arrange a Planning Commission team visit to the Nai Gaj Dam site for the physical assessment of the project and to present a report on its current operational conditions, according to news sources.
The meeting was held in the Parliament House under the chairmanship of Agha Shahzai Durrani. The committee members said that the ministry should present all the details of the development projects (including additional costs incurred due to the delay in construction).
The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) officials informed the committee members that the Nai Gaj Dam – which was initiated in 2012 – should have been completed in 2015. However, the delay in the funds release pushed back the development timeline.
The Planning Commission authorities informed the committee that the revised cost of PC-1 of this damn had exceeded to PKR 47 billion, from the original PKR 26 billion approved in 2012. In response, the committee sought a detailed report from the Planning Commission.
In another development, the Alternative Energy Development Board briefed the meeting that under its new policy, almost 20% of the electricity will be moved to alternate sources by 2025.
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