Gravity water supply project Batkhela costs Rs7.80bn

PESHAWAR: Gravity based water supply project for Batkhela town of district Malakand completed at the total cost of Rs.7.80 billion. The project has been inaugurated on experimental basis.

This was stated by Sub-Divisional Officer (SDOt), Public Health Engineering (PHE), Shah Nawaz Khan while talking to media on Friday.

He said that under the project a 23 kilometer long 18 inch wide pipeline had been laid from Gurtai village of district Swat till Batkhela. The storage capacity of the project is 0.3 million gallons water, which will approximately benefit a population of 150,000, which is 70 percent of the total population of the area.

The officer of the PHE Department said that affected land owners have been paid an amount of Rs.800 million in head of loss to plants, crops, fruits and vegetables.

The project is gravity based therefore it will work around the clock and exempted of the impacts of power load shedding and the people will get water without any interruption.