A 147-megawatt hydropower project in Pakistan is being built for US$362 million and the opposition has reiterated that this shows that the proposed 165-megawatt US$840 million Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) here is overpriced.
Amaila is overpriced and the eventual tariff will not be lower than what people are paying at present, APNU leader David Granger said adding that the coalition remains concerned. “This thing is striking for its expense and all of these things must be studied properly,” AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan told Stabroek News. He said that if the government does not want to do this then the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) should.
Pakistan newspaper, The Nation, reported last week that construction of the