{"id":234482,"date":"2021-12-23T09:31:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T04:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=234482"},"modified":"2021-12-23T09:32:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T04:32:14","slug":"wb-to-launch-245mw-hydropower-projects-in-swat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/wb-to-launch-245mw-hydropower-projects-in-swat\/","title":{"rendered":"WB to launch 245MW hydropower projects in Swat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: The World Bank (WB) would launch 2 hydropower projects of 245 megawatt in Swat district that would generate revenue of over PKR 13 billion for the province annually. These projects besides luring foreign investment in the energy sector would also provide job opportunities to scores of people. A meeting in this regard was held here that was attended by Secretary Energy and Electricity, Sayyed Imtiaz Hussain Shah, Senior Energy Specialist from World Bank, Muhammad Saqib and Advisor World Bank, Masood Ahmad, Chief Executive PEDO, Engineer Naeem Khan and Chief Engineer KHRE Program, Shah Hussain. APP<br \/>\nThe meeting was told that the World Bank by providing financial assistance in the energy sector of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would start work on two hydropower projects in Swat district during the next year. The projects included 157megawatt Madain hydropower project and 88 megawatt Gabral hydropower project.<br \/>\nThe meeting was told that an agreement of USD450 million was earlier signed between the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and the World Band. The projects that would be completed by 2027 would generate revenue of over PKR 13 billion for the province.<br \/>\nThe meeting was further told that the process of hiring international consultants for the projects has been completed while the work plan and strategic affairs were also being worked out. According to the planning, work on these two projects would start in next May or June.<br \/>\nSecretary Energy and Electricity, Sayyed Imtiaz Shah while appreciating the financial assistance provided by the World Bank in the energy sector, expressed the hope that the projects would attract more foreign investment for the socioeconomic uplift of the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: The World Bank (WB) would launch 2 hydropower projects of 245 megawatt in Swat district that would generate revenue of over PKR 13 billion for the province annually. 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A meeting in this regard was held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WB to launch 245MW hydropower projects in Swat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/wb-to-launch-245mw-hydropower-projects-in-swat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WB to launch 245MW hydropower projects in Swat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PESHAWAR: The World Bank (WB) would launch 2 hydropower projects of 245 megawatt in Swat district that would generate revenue of over PKR 13 billion for the province annually. 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