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DAM-L LS: Pakistan to Plan Small Dams costing Rs. 200 Billion (fwd)
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Subject: LS: Pakistan to Plan Small Dams costing Rs. 200 Billion
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Dawn, Pakistan, March 14, 2001
Small dams planned all over country, says Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, March 13: Chief Executive Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday
said many small dams costing about Rs200 billion would be built at
various sites in the four provinces to address the water shortage
problem.
He was responding to a question asked by a woman councillor at the
concluding session of women
councillors' convention here. Gen Musharraf said it was not right to
think that construction of only Kalabagh dam could fulfil the
irrigation and power generation needs of the country.
He said instead of insisting on building Kalabagh Dam in the presence
of reservations of Sindh and the NWFP provinces, the government had
decided to prepare feasibility for small dams like Hingol Dam in
Balochistan, Gomal Zam Dam in the NWFP and Sehwan Dam in Sindh.
However, instead of spending Rs800 billion on Kalabagh dam, it had
been decided to go for small dams which could serve the same purpose,
he said.
Hingol Dam, to be built at a cost of about Rs15 billion, will have
the capacity of one million acre feet and will irrigate hundreds of
thousands of acres of land. Gomal Zam Dam will consume about Rs20
billion and will have the capacity of 1.3 million acres of feet.
He said Kalabagh Dam could be constructed when Sindh and NWFP
provinces did not haveobjections over its construction.
He said many more dams had to be constructed to cater for the
requirements of the country. "This has to be a constant process.
Bhasha Dam will also be constructed," the CE observed. Small dams, he
said, could be completed within five years while construction of the
Kalabagh Dam would take 10 years.
Gen Musharraf lamented that instead of building small dams the
governments in the past, had been insisting on the construction of
Kalabagh Dam. "If they had taken the decision 15 years back, many
dams would have been completed by now," Gen Musharraf said.
He said the height of Mangla Dam could be raised to further four to
five feet which would increase its storage capacity.
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