WAPDA Chairman Lt Gen Muzammil Hussain (Retd.) has visited the advantageously important Diamer Basha Dam Project site where he had brief round of Main Dam site and the contractor’s camp of stationed machinery and equipment. Other than Power China, FWO is one of the two construction companies of the joint venture that won contract of the Main Dam and allied structures of Diamer Basha Dam Project, Frontier Works Organization (FWO) Director General (DG) Maj Gen Kamal Azfar, WAPDA Member (Water) and Diamer Basha Dam Project General Manager Amir Bashir Chaudhry, official from Power China and other senior officers concerned were also present on the juncture. To deal with the increasing needs of the water and electricity in the country, the Chairman has commended upon the project management and the contractors to work with obligation and enthusiasm, so that the project may complete on time. Diamer Basha Dam is being constructed on River Indus – 40 kilometers downstream of Chilas town. The project is of supreme importance for water, food and energy security of Pakistan. It has a gross water storage of 8.1 million-acre feet (MAF) to mitigate floods and irrigate about 1.2 million acres of land. The project has an installed capacity of 4500 megawatt (MW) with annual energy generation of 18.1 billion low-cost electricity.
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