Chinese firm awarded Mangla Refurbished Project’s Package III-C Contract

The contract signing ceremony at WAPDA House Lahore. [Photo/WAPDA]
LAHORE, Apr 20 (Gwadar Pro) - Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) on Friday awarded the contract for Package III-C of the Mangla Refurbished project to the Chinese company Chint.
The package III C amounts to US$ 6.28729 million for design and supply of two 220 KV, 168.75 MVA Generator Step-up (GSU) Transformers for Unit No. 9 and 10 of Mangla Refurbishment Project. 
The Chinese contractor will complete the project in 400 days (around 13 months), according to WAPDA’s official statement. 
General Manager (Hydel) Development WAPDA Ihsan Ullah and Chief Representative of the Chinese firm Chint Zyphyr Zhao signed the contract on behalf of their organizations during the signing ceremony which was held at WAPDA House. 
Member (Finance) WAPDA Naveed Asghar Chaudhry and Member (Power) WAPDA Mr. Jamil Akhtar witnessed signing of the contract. The PD Director Mangla Refurbishment Project along with the officers concerned, representatives of the Consultants and the Contractor also attended the ceremony.
WAPDA is implementing Mangla Refurbishment Project with an approved PC-I cost of Rs.52.224 billion. The Project is being carried out in various phases, wherein the generating units are to be refurbished by closing down one tunnel (two generating units) at a time. Refurbishment of the first two units has been completed in 2022, while refurbishment of all 10 generating units is likely to be accomplished by year 2027-28 in a phased manner. 
Mangla Refurbishment Project, on its completion, will enhance generation capacity of the existing Mangla Hydel Power Station from 1000 MW to 1310 MW, thus registering an increase of 310 MW. The average annual generation of Mangla Hydel Power Station will also be increased  from 5 billion units to 6.6 billion units.