Tag: Wapda

Army beat Wapda in NBP Gold Hockey Cup opener

Army gave a big surprise to fancied Wapda by beating them 1-0 in NBP Gold Cup hockey tournament to take a confident start in...

‘Rs 13.7b allocated for Diamer Bhasha Dam project’

The Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Raghib Shah on Monday said that the 4500 MW-Diamer Basha Dam Project is being implemented...

WAPDA speeds up Kachhi Canal Project

Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has accelerated construction work on Kachhi Canal Project to an optimum level, so that the project could...

WAPDA completes installation of 12 desalination plants

The Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has completed the task of installing 12 desalination plants along Manchar lake for providing potable water...

Speeding garbage truck runs over brothers

A garbage truck ran over a motorcyclist and his brother, both employees of WAPDA, in the northern region of Cantonment. The motorcyclist succumbed to...

WAPDA to start construction of four more dams

The construction work on Naulong, Nai Gaj, Ghabir and Kurram Tangi dams – one each in Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa/FATA respectively –...

PHA employee dies of electrocution

A Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) employee died of electrocution at GOR on Wednesday. Tahir, a 30-year-old gardener of PHA was trimming branches...

20,000MW to be added by 2020: WAPDA

Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Syed Raghib Abbas Shah on Wednesday said that a number of projects of affordable energy are under...

WAPDA’s got the power… and cheap!

The Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) contributed 28,206 million units of low-cost hydel electricity to the National Grid in fiscal year 2011-12. The...

PSO circular debt swells to Rs 403b

Pakistan State Oil (PSO) is on verge of collapse and may go bankrupt in case the government fails to pay the outstanding dues of...

The corrupt Wapda

I was amazed to read Wapda’s advertisement that appeared in various newspapers claiming ‘Wapda – committed to a Brighter Pakistan’ (July 14). As matter of...

Darawat dam to be ready by December

The under-construction Darawat Dam will be completed by December with an estimated cost of around Rs 9.4 billion. Official sources in WAPDA said that the...

WB dives into our reservoirs

Following the signing of an agreement with the Government of Pakistan for providing $840 million for 1410 MW-Tarbela 4th Extension Project, the World Bank...

China to finance 969 MW Neelum-Jhelum project

CDWP approves revised PC-I of Rs 274.88 billion for the project Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Shakil Durrani on Tuesday said that...

Anti-load shedding protests continue in various parts of Punjab

Anti-load shedding protests continued in various parts of Punjab including Faisalabad‚ Khanewal‚ Burewala‚ Okara‚ Sheikhupura‚ Hafizabad‚ Rawalpindi‚ Jhelum and Sargodha on Monday. According to the...

WAPDA-GIK engineering course concludes

The first Post Graduate Certificate Course in Engineering and Financial Management jointly organised by the Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) and Ghulam...