Excavation work for hydropower project starts: The News

LAHORE: Excavation of a 47km-long network of tunnels, one of the main works for the 969-megawatt Neelum Jhelum Hydroelectric Project (NJHEP), has started at the project site near Muzaffarabad in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

The tunnel network is meant for diversion of Neelem river water to outfall into the Jhelum river near Chattar Kalas. A statement issued here said NJHEP General Manager Hasnain Afzal and a representative of Islamic Development Bank witnessed the blasting of rocks for excavation.

The Neelum Jhelum Hydroelectric Project is of immense importance as it would inject low-cost hydel electricity into the national grid. The IDB and other Middle Eastern donors have already agreed to finance the project.

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