KPK govt to include canal project in CPEC

The technical and financial evaluation for a feasibility study, engineering design, and PC-I of the Chashma Right Bank Lift Canal (CRBC) has been completed.

In the progress review meeting of the project it was confirmed that the technical and financial evaluation for feasibility study , engineering design and PC-I of the Chashma Right Bank Lift Canal (CRBC) has been completed.

During the meeting, Chief Minister Mahmood Khan was briefed that once completed the CRBC would prove a game-changer for the agriculture sector in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was told that efforts were underway to include CRBC in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, according to a statement issued here on Sunday.

The meeting was informed that the proposal to include in CPEC of two projects Swat Motorway phase-II and Dera Ismail Khan Motorway had also been sent.

The meeting discussed progress so far made on various projects.