Chairman Wapda Tariq Hameed said the contract of 960 MW Neelum-Jhelum hydro power project would be awarded next week to lowest bidder a Chinese company. "The tendering process of seven years project has already been completed," he told PTV.
He said Mangla raising project would start storing 2.9 million extra water from April 2008.Also 190 MW additional power would be generated from Mangla raising project next year. WAPDA has spent a sum of Rs 21 billion on improving its distribution system Grid Station of 500 kv has been established in Sahiwal, direct line has also been laid from Lahore to Rawat, distribution system in Muzaffargarh has been improved greatly.
These measures help decreasing losses to 6.6 from 7.5 percent, he said. As many as 33 power transformers have been set up in Lahore city with the cost of Rs 1.6 billion.