Chinese company to construct mega hydropower project in KP

Chinese company to construct mega hydropower project in KP

*PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has signed an agreement with aChinese company for the construction of a 300 megawatts Balakot Hydro PowerProject.*

Under the agreement, work on the construction of the project will bestarted next month and will be completed at a cost of eighty-five billionrupees within six years.

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan who was the chief guest onthe occasion, said that Prime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate theproject.

He said the project on completion will generate fourteen billion rupees asrevenue.

The Chief Minister said so far the Pakhtunkhwa Energy DevelopmentOrganization has completed one hundred and sixty megawatts hydropowerprojects in the province.