F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will perform the ground-breaking of Mohmand Dam on Thursday (today).
According to details, former chief justice Saqib Nisar will also be present at the groundbreaking ceremony of the dam in Mohmand district.
Mohmand dam is being constructed on Swat River and will be completed at a cost of over Rs183 billion by 2024.
It will generate 800-megawatt electricity besides bringing about 17,000 acres barren land under cultivation. The dam will also solve the problem of water scarcity in Mohmand district besides saving Peshawar, Charsadda and Nowshera districts from floods.
The dam will be able to store 300,000 cusecs of water.
It has gross capacity of 1.9 million acre feet (MAF), live capacity 0.67 MAF with power generation potential of 800 megawatts (MW) and annual energy production of 2862 GWh.
The cost of the said project in 2003 stood at $1 billion which has now swelled to $3 billion because of the inordinate delay during Musharraf regime.
Prime Minister Imran Khan earlier today arrived in Tirah Valley of Khyber District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where he attended the concluding ceremony of a sports gala as chief guest.
Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shah Farman and Chief Minister Mahmood Khan were also present at the event.
