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Right to Water (right-to-water@iatp.org)    Posted: 07/24/2001  By  daima@brain.net.pk	
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LAHORE: 'Vision 2025 excellent investment opportunity'

By Our Reporter

LAHORE, July 23: Lt-Gen Zulfiqar Ali Khan, the Water and Power Development
Authority chairman, said on Monday the Vision 2025 programme was an
excellent opportunity for investment in Pakistan.

The general was addressing a large assembly of investors, contractors,
suppliers and stake holders at an international seminar on Wapda's Vision
2025 at a hotel here.

The programme, he said, included short term, medium term and long term
projects to be taken up in three phases. The first phase would start with
the ground breaking ceremony of Gomal Zam Dam and Mirani Dam projects on Aug
14. Other projects in the first phase were raising the Mangla storage level,
Kachhi Canal in Balochistan with a barrage at Mithankot, the Greater Thal
Canal in the Punjab, the Rainee Canal in Sindh and Satpara Dam in the
Northern Areas. He also gave details of the projects and mentioned their
estimated costs.

He said the Vision 2025 hydro-power projects included the 96 MW Jinnah
project in the Punjab, the 81 MW Malakand III, 121 MW Allai Khawar, 72 MW
Khan Khawar, 130 MW Duber Khawar, 106 MW Golen Gol, 84 MW Matiltan and 10 MW
Pehur projects in the NWFP, 97 MW New Bong, 963 MW Neelam-Jhelum and 740 MW
Kohala projects in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Besides, he said, a series of
small hydel plants were planned to be installed at 591 sites along various
barrages and canal falls throughout the country with a potential generation
capacity of 650 MW.

The Wapda chairman said out of the 77 million acres of land available for
cultivation about 36 million acres were canal irrigated. Pakistan, he said,
had an additional potential of bringing about 22.5 million acres of virgin
land under cultivation. As a result of a three-fold increase in the
population during the past 50 years, he said, per capita availability of
irrigation water in Pakistan had dropped from 5,650 cubic metres to 1,400 in
2000. Unless additional storages were built, by the year 2012, the figure
would be around 1,000 cubic metres and Pakistan would be a country short of
water.

He said the existing reservoirs at Mangla, Tarbela and Chashma were fast
losing their capacity due to heavy sedimentation and by the year 2010 would
lose about 5.9 MAF, equivalent of gross capacity of Mangla Dam. He said more
than 39 MAF water escaped below Kotri annually which could be saved by
building additional storages.Sardar Muhammad Tariq, Wapda's Member (Water),
further explained details of the projects included in the programme with
particular reference to the social problems of resettlement, payment of
compensation to those affected by the projects and the environmental issues.

Nespak managing director Asif Saleem pointed out that the proposed
hydro-power stations were planned to be constructed in far flung areas and
that Wapda would be incurring extra cost on extending its grid system to the
power stations. He also said that the Irrigation and Power Departments of
the provincial government should also be associated in the construction of
the Vision 2025 projects.

Mr Vince Harris, the Hubco representative, said through its recent actions
the government had created a climate conducive for investment.

Development VISIONS,
48 A, Shalimar Colony,
Bosan Road, Multan- Pakistan
Ph:++92-61-222609





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