Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar said on Wednesday said that a simplified framework for fast track development of private sector hydropower projects has been prepared which would be submitted for the approved of Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet. He said this while chairing the Board of Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB). He said the framework has been developed in consultation with all provinces and AJK. It provides three modes for project processing, including processing of sites through International Competitive Bidding (ICB) where the feasibility study and detailed engineering and design have been completed; advertisement for sites where no detailed engineering and design has been completed and raw site proposals where no feasibility study has been completed.