LAHORE – Pakistan government has inked an important agreement with theUSAID over the Mangla Dam refurbishment.
As per the media report, the $78 million Project Implementation Letter(PIL)-2 for Mangla Dam Refurbishment Project (MRP) was inked between Wapdaand the USAID on Wednesday.
Muzammil Hussain, Chairman Lt General (retired) of the Water and PowerDevelopment Authority (Wapda) and Jerry Bisson, Mission Director inPakistan of United States Agency for International Development (USAID)signed the agreement on behalf of their particular associations.
According to details, the USAID funding will be spent to commence a varietyof works of Package V-IX of the plan. PIL-1 of cost almost $72 million forMRP was signed between USAID and Wapda in 2014.
The Wapda press release briefed the details as follows, “The MRP, on itsconclusion, will augment generation capacity of the existing Mangla HydelPower Station from 1,000 megawatt (MW) to 1,310 MW, which confirms anaugmentation of almost 310 MW. The renovation procedure is divided into 11different packages which will be executed in a variety of phases. Thegenerating units will be renovated by closing down one tunnel (twogenerating units) at a time. However, refurbishment of the first two unitswill be finished in year 2019, whereas refurbishment of all 10 generatingunits is projected to be proficient by year 2024.”
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Furthermore, keeping in mind the maturity of these power generatingequipment and guarantee related to ease of use of additional water, Wapdais executing MRP with a permitted PC-I cost of Rs 52.224 bn.
Also, USAID is supporting by granting $150 million, while the FrenchDevelopment Agency is presenting €90 million as loan. However, the balanceamount is taken care by Wapda.
