A meeting of Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project's Board of Management has reviewed main features of the project that included Nauseri Area, headrace tunnel, Chattar Kalas Area development issues and sedimentation basins on the Neelum river. The meeting was held recently in Muzaffarabad and Nespak was represented by its Managing Director Asad I.A. Khan.
The Nespak Engineers presented a technical review of the headrace tunnel, which is 28.5 km long and conveys water from the intake area at Nauseri to the powerhouse area near Chattar Kalas, says a press release issued here on Wednesday. Nespak is providing technical assistance, support and supervision to the Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project, which has been designed to generate after completion, 963 MW of electricity.
The BOM of the project appreciated Nespak input, saying that would facilitate feeding of four vertical-shaft Francis turbines with an installed capacity of 963 MW located in an underground power house. Nespak has been associated with the project since its inception and has provided complete engineering and designing support during various project implementation phases.
Moreover, the it added the Nespak has recently signed a technical services agreement with the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra). This is the largest ever consultancy agreement in the history of Nespak with a consultancy fee of Rs 4.02 billion. Nespak has been working as general consultant on this project of highest national importance since October 2005. Nespak's initial consultancy period expired in October 2008 and it was renegotiated and re-earned after passing through competitive procedures.
This contract for extension of service from October 2008 to April 2011 was signed by Jamil Uddin Khilji, General Manager and Head of ER Division, Nespak and Brigadier Masood Ahmed, Director General/COS of Erra in the presence of Lieutenant General Sajjad Akram, Deputy Chairman Erra and other officials of Nespak and Erra.
Under the agreement, Nespak will provide general consultancy services for reconstruction and rehabilitation projects in various sectors scattered all over Azad Kashmir and NWFP. Asad I.A. Khan, Managing Director Nespak, has appreciated achievements of ERD employees on successful acquisition of this contract.
Other two Water and Power Sector Projects for which Nespak has been engaged as premier engineering consultants are Transmission Lines Project and in addition, Nespak is providing consultancy services for 220kv and 132kv transmission lines being constructed to disperse 323 MW of electricity generated from three high-head hydropower stations at Duber Khwar, Khan Khwar and Allai Khwar on tributaries of Indus River at a cost of Rs 2.4 billion.
Under the National Programme for improvement of Watercourses in Pakistan that has got extension for a period of two years (2008-10) in the consultants' contract agreement. Ministry of Water and Power management has appreciated Pakistan's premier engineering organisation's technical support in building public sector water and power projects of national significance.