MANSEHRA: The district administration has imposed Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, banning the sale, purchase and transfer of land to be acquired for the Balakot hydropower project.
“We have already met all legal formalities to acquire over 1,700 kanals of land for the Rs85 billion Balakot power project in Kaghan valley and this process will be completed shortly,” deputy commissioner Dr Qasim Ali Khan told energy minister Himayatullah Khan here on Tuesday.
Led by the minister and having energy secretary Mohammad Zubair as member, a delegation of the Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organisation, which is executing the project, visited the project site afterward.