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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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 History
• 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.
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 History
• 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.
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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 (‫ )کال باغ‬a town and union council of

Mianwali District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
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 Introduction………
• 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.

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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
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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

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(26,000,000 m3)
 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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 Advantages
• 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. 16
• 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
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– 2150000 acres in D I Khan
• 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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 Disadvantages

• 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.

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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. 21
Provinces Point of
View

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 Punjab’s View
• 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,
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 Sindh’s View
• 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.
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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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 NWFP’s View

• 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.
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 Balochistan’s View
• 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.
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 Barriers for KBD
• 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.

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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
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 Conclusion

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.

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