Rs150m released for Daducha Dam.

RAWALPINDI -- Work on Daducha Dam worth Rs6.429 billion will start in two or three weeks as Punjab government has released Rs150 million to the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO).

A senior official of the district administration told Dawn that land acquisition was underway. Payment has been started to private owners and the process will be completed soon.

However, some owners have approached Lahore High Court's Rawalpindi bench, seeking an increase in the compensation amount.

The official said the contractor will start work on the diversion (flow pipe) and spillway in the first phase.

The dam will be constructed on upstream of Soan River. Rainwater from Murree and Kahuta hills will be stored in a lake at Daducha village near Sihala on Kahuta Road.

As many as 10 villages, seven in Rawalpindi and three in Kahuta, will come under the dam. The project will affect 218 houses, seven industrial and commercial units and other areas.

The total storage capacity of the dam would be 60,000 acre feet, dead...