{"id":92265,"date":"2020-07-11T16:53:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T11:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=92265"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T11:53:15","slug":"pm-to-visit-diamer-basha-dam-next-week-to-review-construction-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=92265","title":{"rendered":"PM to visit Diamer Basha Dam next week to review construction work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: July 11, 2020 (TNS): Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Diamer Basha Dam Project next week to review construction activities.<\/p>\n<p>According to a WAPDA press release issued on Saturday, after Mohmand Dam which was started last year, Diamer Basha Dam is the second mega multi-purpose dam that has been commenced in about a year.<\/p>\n<p>Diamer Basha Dam, a vital project for water, food and energy security of Pakistan, is being constructed on River Indus, 315 Kilometer upstream of Tarbela Dam.<\/p>\n<p>The project is scheduled to be completed in 2028-29.<\/p>\n<p>The project has three core objectives namely water storage for agriculture, flood mitigation and hydel power generation.<\/p>\n<p>The dam will have a gross water storage capacity of 8.1 million acre feet to irrigate 1.23 million acres of additional land.<\/p>\n<p>The project with installed power generation capacity of 4500 megawatt will provide more than 18 billion units per annum to the National Grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: July 11, 2020 (TNS): Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Diamer Basha Dam Project next week to review construction activities. According to a WAPDA press release issued on Saturday, after Mohmand Dam which was started last year, Diamer Basha Dam is the second mega multi-purpose dam that has been commenced in about a year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92267,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92265\/revisions\/92267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}