Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Chairman WAPDA Lt. Gen. Muzammil Hussain (Retd) has said that the share of hydropower would gradually be increased in the total energy mix that would reduce the cost of doing business and facilitate the growth of business activities.
He said this while exchanging views with a delegation of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry led by its President Muhammad Ahmed Waheed President ICCI that called on him here on Monday. Vice President ICCI Saif ur Rehman Khan, former Senior Vice President ICCI Malik Sohail Hussain, Chief Coordinator FPCCI UBG and Muhammad Aslam Khokhar were in the delegation.
Lt. Gen. Muzammil Hussain (Retd) gave a detailed briefing to the ICCI delegation about the dams and water reservoir projects being constructed by the WAPDA in the country. He said that the construction activities on the strategically important Diamer Basha Dam Project were picking up pace and this project would provide over 16000 jobs to the engineers and local people leading to poverty alleviation and socio-economic uplift of the local area.
