WAPDA is building the Mohmand Dam Hydropower Project on Swat River, upstream of the Munda Headworks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mohmand District.
Chairman WAPDA Engineer Lt Gen Sajjad Ghani (Retd) was informed during his visit to the under-construction Mohmand Dam Project, that the diversion system is scheduled for completion in November this year, with the project expected to be completed in 2026.
Naveed Asghar Chaudhry, Member (Finance) of WAPDA, and Engineer Jamil Akhtar, Member (Power) of WAPDA, were also present during the Chairman’s visit to the Mohmand Dam Project.
WAPDA is building the Mohmand Dam Hydropower Project on the Swat River, upstream of the Munda Headworks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mohmand District.
The Chairman reviewed construction work on various sites today, including the re-regulation pond, main dam, spillway, diversion tunnels, access tunnel, power intake, power house, switch yard, and irrigation system, among others. He urged the project management team to strictly adhere to the specifications laid out for the project’s construction.
After reviewing the pre- and post-flood situations, the chairman concluded that concerted efforts are required to complete this megaproject on time. WAPDA’s project management, consultants, and contractor will need to be proactive in this regard, he added.
Later, the GM and PD of the Mohmand Dam Project, flanked by the consultants and the contractor, provided an update on the project’s progress.
Mohmand Dam is a multi-purpose construction project. When completed, it will hold 1.2 MAF of water and aid in flood mitigation in Peshawar, Charsadda, and Nowshera. It will irrigate 18,237 acres of new land in Mohmand and Charsadda, in addition to supplementing 160,000 acres of existing land. Mohmand Dam has an installed generation capacity of 800 MW.
It will supply the National Grid with 2.86 billion units of low-cost, environmentally friendly hydel electricity per year.
The project will also provide Peshawar with 300 million gallons of drinking water per day. The Project’s estimated annual benefits are Rs. 51.6 billion. A sum of Rs. 4.5 billion has been earmarked for Confidence Building Measures (CBM) in the project area for socio-economic development of the locals.