Rs41bn to be spent on dam projects.

LANDI KOTAL -- Provincial minister for irrigation Liaquat Khattak has said that Rs41 billion will be spent on construction and upgradation of dams in Bara subdivision of Khyber tribal district.

The minister visited the Bara dam and site of Jabba dam the other day. He said on the occasion that Rs30 billion would be spent on the upgradation of Bara dam while another Rs10 billion had been approved for the construction of Jabba dam.

He said that the dams would provide drinking water to a number of localities in Peshawar besides irrigating agricultural land in Jamrud and...

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