Wapda boss says he will stop if demonstrated wrong on Kalabagh

Wapda boss says he will stop if demonstrated wrong on Kalabagh

LAHORE: Unfazed by feedback of his push for dubious Kalabagh Dam, Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) Chairman Zafar Mahmood says he will proceed with his endeavors to evacuate what he portrays as misguided judgments about the undertaking to clear path for its execution. 

Conversing with Dawn on Thursday, Mahmood offered to leave his place of employment in the event that "anybody from Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan could demonstrate that the usage of the venture would submerge Nowshehra and influence stream of the Indus River". 

All the three littler areas are against the 3,700MW Kalabagh Dam venture with their congregations having passed resolutions against its development. The last time the central government had attempted to make a common agreement over the task was under Gen Pervez Musharraf who was compelled to step back after solid restriction from Sindh and KP. 

Demands congregations of three areas to give him a patient hearing 

The Nawaz Sharif government too has separated itself from the Wapda administrator's position on the dam, terming it his 'own assessment'. 

"Whatever I am talking on the issue depends on realities I have uncovered in my own ability. Also, before sharing my contribution on the task publically, I myself had talked about it around one-and-half years back with Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Asif who had permitted me to do as such to the degree of realities alone," Mr Mahmood said. 

He requested that its preferred KP government name any advisor to concentrate on the issue of Nowshehra. 

As per a study directed by a global specialist about the issue of Nowshehra, he said, there would be no danger to the city. "The KP government can get another study directed by some other global expert of its decision on the off chance that it doesn't concur with the discoveries of the past specialist," he included. 

Mr Mahmood additionally portrayed as wrong Sindh's worry with respect to interruption to the Indus River stream because of the development of different trenches. 

"Since there was no arrangement for building new channels, how would it be able to influence the stream?," he pondered. "I have likewise composed letters to the central secretaries of Sindh, KP and Balochistan to either constitute a joint board of trustees or make whatever other course of action to completely survey every single honest to goodness concern and manufacture accord prompting execution of the undertaking," the administrator said. 

He said he was prepared to contend and legitimize his position in common congregations where some deferment movements were moved against him. "I ask for the congregations to hear me in subtle element and after that take the choice regardless of whether the venture ought to be taken to the Council of Common Interest (CCI). As I would see it the proposition must be submitted before the CCI for endorsement, since it is an imperative issue and ought to be executed for creating shabby hydel power," he said.