Mangla Power House closed down.

Byline: Fawad Yousafzai

Islamabad -- Mangla Power House was closed down on Tuesday after the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) stopped outflows from the reservoir.

'As the Kharif crop is at maturing stage so keeping in view the lean demand on Punjab's request, Mangla Power House is being closed down with immediate effect till further orders,' said Irsa spokesman Khalid Rana during an interaction with media.

'Simultaneously, on similar request by Sindh, Tarbela outflows were curtailed to 33,000 cusecs from 40,000 cusecs on Monday and will further be reduced to 25,000 cusecs on Tuesday till further orders, the spokesman said.

After closure of Mangla Power House and considerable reduction in Tarbela outflows, share of hydel electricity in the national grid was reduced considerably.

The provinces will start drawing waters again from 27/28 October for sowing of wheat crop.

Irsa stops outflows from reservoir

As per data released by Irsa, inflows in River Indus at Tarbela was 33,400 cusecs and outflows were 33,000 cusecs, inflow in Kabul at Nowshera was 12,000 cusecs and outflows 12,000 cusecs, inflows in Jhelum at Mangla 8,800 cusecs and outflows 3,800 cusecs, inflows in Chenab at Marala was 15,000 cusecs and outflows 10,300...