Explanation

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on March 9, 2021 signed an agreement with a Chinese company for the construction of the 300-megawatt Balakot hydropower project.

The 300MW project said to be the biggest-ever power generation plant in the KPK province — would be constructed with an estimated cost of Rs85 billion in a period of six years with the financial assistance of the Asian Development Bank.