MANSEHRA: The Lower Kohistan district administration has intensified the process for the acquisition of land for the Dubair-Ranowali Road, which was washed away in the 2022 flash floods.
To finalise the tendering process in accordance with an agreement reached between the Commissioner Hazara and a local jirga led by MNA Muhammad Idrees earlier this month, a meeting was held on Thursday with Deputy Commissioner, Lower Kohistan, Tariq Mehmood in the chair. Representatives of Wapda, Revenue and other relevant departments at Pattan reviewed the acquisition of land for the 26km Dubai-Ranowali Road.
They also reviewed the extension of the grid station of Dubair Khawar Dam to address the load-shedding issue in the district.“I want completion of the tendering process within a stipulated period as local people have been extending their support to the Revenue Department for early acquisition of the land,” Mehmood said.
He said that Commissioner, Hazara Division, Fayyaz Ali Shah and MNA from Kohistan Muhammad Idrees, who is also the chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Power Division, agreed to the early completion of the tendering process.
“The government has released Rs500 million funds for the acquisition of land and the entire process should be completed within a stipulated period,” Mehmood said.The people of Dubair, Ranowalia and adjoining localities in Lower Kohistan, who were staging a sit-in seeking reconstruction of the Dubair-Ranowalia road for the last two consecutive months after forcibly suspending electricity production from the Dubair Khawar power unit, had ended their protest after the agreement reached between the Commissioner Hazara and the jirga earlier this month.
