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Presentation Topic

Kala Bagh Dam

Presented To

Ms Farhat Jabeen

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Our Group

Muhammad Usman 17

Aamir Shahbaz 18

Usman Younis 25

Ahmad Arslan Butt 30

Abu Turab 32

Sohail Ashraf 40

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• Kalabagh became small state ruled by Nawab

after the collapse of Mughal Empire.

• Sikhs conquered the Kalabagh state in 1822 but

later British restored the Kalabagh state after

they defeated the Sikhs in Second Anglo-Sikh

War of 1848 and 1849.

• Historically Kalabagh remained a famous Awan

stronghold in the district.

History

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• Malik Atta Muhammad Khan (father of Malik

Amir Muhammad Khan) was declared "Khan

Bahadur" during the colonial period and

Kalabagh and the surrounding areas were

granted as a "Jagir" to him.

• After the independence of Pakistan the seventh

Nawab of Kalabagh, Malik Amir Muhammad

Khan became governor of West Pakistan.

History

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• According to the PC-II of the Project "KBD was

initiated by GOP in 1953

• until 1973, the project was basically considered

as a storage project for meeting the irrigation

needs

• The project planning report, circulated in March

84, tried to establish the technical and economic

feasibility of the project

• The feasibility study and documentation have

cost the GOP around one billion rupees so far.

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Introduction of Kalabagh

Kalabagh

—  Town and union council  —

Country Pakistan

Region Punjab

District & Tehsil Mianwali District

• Kalabagh ( باغ a town and union council of (کاال

Mianwali District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

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• It is located on the western bank of Indus River.

• It is the site of the proposed Kalabagh Dam .

• It is also famous for its red hills of the salt range and

scenic view of the Indus River traversing through the

hills.

• It also produces handicrafts especially footwear and

Makhadi Halwa.

Introduction………

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Kalabagh Dam Key Facts

Dam type Earthfill

Height (above riverbed) 79 m

Length 3,3352 m

Area at retention level 164 square miles (420 km2)

Catchment area 110,500 square miles (286,000 km2)

Gross storage capacity 7,900,000 acre foot (9.74 km3)

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Live storage capacity 6,100,000 acre foot (7.52 km3)

Dead storage 1,800,000 acre foot (2.22 km3)

Retention level 915 feet (279 m) amsl

Main spillway capacity 1,070,000 cubic feet per second (30,000 m3/s)

Design flood discharge 1,920,000 cubic feet per second (54,000 m3/s)

Hydropower generation 3.6 GW

Maximum discharge 1,200,000 cubic feet per second (34,000 m3/s) (in 1929)

Total volume of dam 34,000,000 cubic yards (26,000,000 m3)

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Causes/Reasons

• All Pakistanis agree that Pakistan faces a

severe water shortage, and that some form of

water management must be implemented

soon.

• To eliminate and control the flood peaks in the

River Indus so as to minimize flood hazards

downstream.

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• To compensate for the storage loss due to the

silting up of exiting reservoirs till such time that

their substitutes, are actually available.

• To generate large amounts of low cost hydro

electric power.

• To provide additional storage on the Indus

River, and thus reduce the exiting system

shortfalls in irrigation requirements.

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• A lot of publicity is being made that a huge

quantity of about 36MAF is flowing to the sea on

the average which should be utilized by building

new storages like Kalabagh Dam.

• The effects of Kalabagh dam on agricultural

production, such as tobacco, sugarcane and

maize.

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• Reducing dependence on imported fuels.

• Additional water from Kalabagh can enhance crop

production in three ways

– by irrigating new land

– by enhancing cropping intensity on

existing land

– by enhancing yields

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• Electricity Production:

– KBD would supply cheap hydro-electric power to the whole country.

– KBD would produce almost 3.6 GW

• The non-agriculturist factor would be

trained in various trades in the Training

Institutes to be established in the Model

Village.

Advantages

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• Employment opportunities

– Almost 35000 direct and indirect

• Dam will provide water for irrigation of four

million acres:

– 380,000 acres in Minawali, Khushab

and Jehlam

– 2150000 acres in D I Khan

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• Water Reservation

– 6.65 MAF water annually

• Kalabagh Dam as only a storage dam to offset

the storage loss of Tarbela and Mangla Dams,

due to sedimentation.

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• National food security would be

jeopardized, thus subjecting the economy

to additional burden of importing food

grains.

• Water logging of Punjab’s and NWFP’s

cultivated land.

Disadvantages

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• The annual energy generated at Kalabagh is

equivalent to 20 million barrels of oil. This annual

import of fuel for thermal generation, including

augmentation of transportation infrastructure,

would be an additional burden to the economy.

• The dam will also have adverse impacts on the

environment.

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• It will also displace a large number of

people.

– 34,000 in NWFP.

– 59,000 in Punjab.

• Telecommunication, power lines and gas

lines also required relocation.

• 182,000 acres of productive land will be

lost under the reservoir.

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Provinces Point of View

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• Pakistan hasn't built the dam and has also

barrened a large area of Punjab province by

taking out three rivers.

• Punjab's view is also based on the fact that a

dam of above 3GW production can finish all the

energy crisis of Pakistan.

• Punjab has also agreed not to claim any royalty

on generation of resources from Kalabagh dam,

yet they are not trusted by other provinces

Punjab’s View

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• Sindh objects that their share of the Indus water

will be curtailed as water from the Kalabagh will

go to irrigate farmlands in Punjab and NWFP, at

their cost.

• With the construction of dams, such as Mangla

Dam and Tarbela Dam across the Indus, Sindhis

fear that there simply is not enough water for

another large dam across the Indus, let alone

three.

Sindh’s View

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• Sindhis hold that their rights as the lower riparian

have precedence according to international

water distribution law.

• Sindh’s claim that even the earlier 1991 Indus

Water-Sharing Accord, the document already

guaranteed by the constitutional body, the

Council of Common Interests, has been violated,

and that Punjab has "stolen" their water.

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• The fact that the NWFP will suffer the adverse

consequences of the reservoir but not get

royalties is seen as unfair.

• Concerns that large areas of Nowshera District

would be submerged by the dam and even wider

areas would suffer from waterlogging and

salinity as has occurred with the Tarbela Dam.

NWFP’s View

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• The Baloch are not directly affected by the dam as

such

– most nationalist Baloch Sardars see the dam as another instance of Punjab lording it over the smaller provinces.

– By opposing the dam they are signalling their disaffection with being the poorest province and most neglected of all in development.

Balochistan’s View

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• Trust deficit between the Punjab on one side and

the other three provinces on the other.

• It would still take at least eight years to complete

and commission such a large dam. In the

meantime, the water situation would continue to

worsen.

• Smaller dams, barrages, and canals must be built

before that, and water conservation techniques

introduced.

Barriers for KBD

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• One of the reasons for creating controversy and

difference of opinion on the project is attributed to

WAPDA’s failure to adequately consult the

provinces at the project planning and design stage

• Cost of Project is increasing continuously from the

time of its announcements.

– At present he dam is expected to cost around US $ 8 billion

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Present Situation

• Government of Pakistan formed a technical

committee, headed by A. N. G. Abbasi, to study the

technical merits of the Kalabagh dam. The four-

volume technical report concluded that Bhasha dam

should be built before Kalabagh, further complicating

matters. • On the 26th of May 2008, Federal Minister

for Water and Power of Pakistan Raja Pervez Ashraf (PPP)has said that Kalabagh Dam will not be constructed.

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• Raja Parvez Ashraf said due totechnical report,

opposition from NWFP, Sindh and other

stakeholder, the project is no longer feasible.

• The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf

Raza Gillani announced that the fate of the

project would be decided by a plebiscite.

• The decision came after Pakistan faced extreme

power crisis and acute water shortages. The

government is currently finding alternative

locations for the dam.

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Suggestions

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• Pakistan depends almost entirely on the flows of

Indus System for surface water supplies for its

requirements of irrigated agriculture so Kalabagh

Dam must be built.

• Water is God gifted asset for any country. In

future mostly economy will be depend in the

water so their should be a project to reserve the

water for future use and Kala Bagh Dam is our

one of the biggest project which can solve this

problem.

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• At this time of trouble people of Pakistan should

show the unity and should support the project

which is in favor of whole economy by sating a

side their personal grudges.

• Pakistan is an agriculture country and its more

then 65% families are engaged with it so they

need water to grow crops so their should be a

irrigation system that can support our economy

so it should be built.

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• Recently Pakistan purchased Rental Power project

which is a great burden on the economy of Pakistan,

so as we all know that Kala Bagh Dam can produce

electricity at cheap rate so it should be built.

• The dam can provide more then 35,000 direct and

indirect jobs opportunities and with the construction

of Kala Bagh Dam there can be established a Model

Village and with its help our non agriculture sector

can also progress.

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Kalabagh dam has both positive and negative

effects for our nation but positives are more then

negatives because in present and near future

our economy depend on a large dam like

Kalabagh so it should be built on top priority

basis.

Conclusion

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