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December 8, 2020

Dasu, Mohmand, Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower projects: AGP finds costly missteps, glaring irregularities

ISLAMABAD: The Wapda seems to be stonewalling inquiries ordered by the Auditor General of Pakistan into huge missteps and massive irregularities in procurement for Dasu and Mohmand hydropower projects, TTI can report.The AGP report on the Ministry of Water Resources and its entities’ accounts for the financial year 2018-19 reveals that WAPDA blew the deadline for signing of a procurement deal with a vendor for the World Bank-funded Dasu Stage-I hydropower plant by 15 months.Pushing the...