Pakistan: Koto Hydropower Project to Begin Power Generation This Year
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
The construction of Koto hydropower project in the Lower Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has entered the final stage. After the successful completion of the project in the current year, it will start the production of 40.8 megawatts of cheap electricity.
The project will earn an annual income of more than Rs. 1.7 billion and create new employment opportunities in the province. Timely completion of the Koto HPP will lead to the prosperity of the people of the province and the economy will get stability.
This was stated by Special Assistant to KP CM on Energy Tariq Mehmood Sadozai during an emergency visit to the Koto hydro and project site. He had carefully examined the various parts of the project while reviewing the pace of work.
In this context, the Project Director Sultan Rum, briefed about the project and informed that during the Covid-19 emergency, for the project bringing in the machinery also proved difficult due to which the project was slightly delayed.
On this occasion, the Special Assistant expressed satisfaction over the project-working pace and warned the field staff that the speed of work on the project must be increased so that the people can benefit from the benefits of the project soon with the timely completion of the remaining work.
A new era will begin, which will provide the province with an annual income of billions of rupees as well as new employment opportunities he added.
Reference Link:- https://propakistani.pk/2025/01/10/koto-hydropower-project-to-begin-power-generation-this-year/
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
