Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting General (retired) Asim Saleem Bajwa recently tweeted that the work on Suki Kinari Hydropower Project has not been affected by COVID-19 pandemic. He said that 50 percent work on the project has already been completed on the $1.963b project which has created 4,250 employment opportunities.
The dam is being constructed as a 54.5 meter high and 336 meter wide concrete gravity dam with 2 gated spillways. Four 218 MW turbines are to be installed as part of the project, and will generate approximately 870 MW of electricity in total.
Construction of the dam will result in the formation of a 3.1 kilometer long reservoir with a capacity of 9 million cubic meters of water. It will not cause large scale displacement of populations as no villages or towns will be inundated by the resulting dam’s reservoir.
