LAHORE, Feb 20: Work on a 47km network of tunnels — one of the main works of 969MW Neelum-Jhelum Hydroelectric project — has started at the project site near Muzaffarabad in Azad Kashmir.

According to a press release, the network will divert the flow of the Neelum river to the Jhelum river, near Chattar Kalas.

The project’s general manager, Mr Hasnain Afzal, and a representative of the Islamic Development Bank witnessed the blasting of rocks for the tunnel network.

The IDB and some Middle East donors are financing the Rs130 billion project. The contract has been awarded to a consortium of Chinese companies.—APP