Lahore: The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has signed a contract worth PKR 9.98 billion with a joint venture for providing consultancy services regarding the construction design, supervision and contract management of the Mohmand dam hydropower project.
The joint venture, namely the Mohmand Dam Consultants Group (MDCG), is led by NESPAK, and overseen by six partners and seven sub-consultants (hailing from four foreign and nine local firms).
The agreement was signed in Islamabad by the Wapda General Manager/Project Director of Mohmand Dam, Mohammad Javed Afridi, and MDCG representative Dr Tahir Mehmood Hayat.
Federal Minister for Water Resources Mohammad Faisal Vawda, Secretary for Water Resources Mohammad Ashraf, WAPDA Chairman Lt Gen (rtd) Muzammil Hussain, Joint Secretary of Water Resources Syed Mohammad Mehr Ali Shah, WAPDA members, and several senior officers and representatives of the consulting firms were also present at the occasion.
The Mohmand dam project is being constructed on Swat River in the Mohmand tribal district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This is a multi-purpose project with water storage capacity of 1.2 million acre feet, and power generation capacity of 800 megawatt.
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