Water and Power Development Authority has awarded a contract worth 11.92 billion rupees to G E Hydro France for Package XI of Mangla Refurbishment.

General Manager (Hydel) Development, WAPDA, Ihsan Ullah and representative of G E Hydro France Abubakar signed the agreement in Islamabad.

The contract includes manufacturing, supply, installation and commissioning of units 9 and 10.

According to a WAPDA spokesperson, the authority is implementing Mangla Refurbishment Project with an approved PC-I cost of 52.224 billion rupees.

Mangla Refurbishment Project, on its completion, will enhance generation capacity of the existing Mangla Hydel Power Station from 1000 megawatts (MW) to 1310 MW.

Source: Radio Pakistan