Daily Times

The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) meeting on Wednesday, presided over by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan, approved 1 project worth Rs 3.63 billion and recommended projects worth Rs. 122.128 billion with World Bank share of $450 million to ECNEC for consideration.

According to press release, senior officials from Federal and Provincial governments were also present in the meeting. Projects related to Energy and water Resources were presented in the meeting. Government of KP presented 3 Energy projects worth Rs. 122,128.25 million.

First project related to Energy namely “Hiring of Planning Consultants and management Support Consultants for Energy Sector Development and Institutional Strengthening under the World Bank Assisted KP Hydropower & Renewable Energy Development Program” worth Rs. 5775 million was approved in the meeting.

The objective of the project is to prepare plans, feasibility studies/ design studies through Planning Consultants, Institutional Strengthening through Management Support Consultants and capacity building of PEDO/Energy & Power Department KP.

Second project of Energy Namely “Construction of 157 MW Madian Hydropower Project, District Swat, under the world Bank assisted Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Hydropower & Renewable Energy Development Program (KPHREDP)” worth Rs. 79798.00 million was referred to ECNEC for further approval. The main object of this project is to construct 157 MW Madian Hydropower project on Swat River.

The project will generate 767.59 GWh of affordable energy annually to make a value addition in generation capacity in the power network of KP and the country.

The third project of Energy titled “Construction of 88 MW Gabral Kalam hydropower project” worth Rs. 36555.25 million was referred to ECNEC for further approval. The project will generate 339.19 GWh of affordable energy annually to make a value addition in generation capacity in the power network of KP and in the country.

CDWP also approved a project namely “Disaster Climate Resilience Improvement Project AJK” worth Rs. 3629.820 million which is also funded through WB share of $347 million. The main objective of this project is to find opportunity from the adversity, to ensure multi hazard resilience built into design of all flood emergency reconstruction project, to enhance efficiency of State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA), Planning development department and other national building departments for judicious and equitable emergency and normal planning efficient monitoring of implementation through input of knowledge for the future development and emergency response.

The forum also considered “Evacuation of Power from 2160 MW Dasu Hydropower Project (Stage-1)” and “Pakistan Goes Global” but these projects were not cleared due to technical observations, hence decided to be discussed in next meeting. The sponsored were directed to comply with the observation before consideration of next CDWP meeting.