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سپریم کورٹ میں ڈھڈوچہ ڈیم کی تعمیر سے متعلق کیس کی سماعت کے دوران پنجاب حکومت نے ڈیم بنانے کی بحریہ ٹاؤن کی پیشکش مسترد کرتے ہوئے اسے خود تعمیر کرنے کا فیصلہ کیا ہے۔
عدالت عظمیٰ میں جسٹس عظمت سعید کی سربراہی میں 3 رکنی بینچ نے ڈھڈوچہ ڈیم کی تعمیر سے متعلق کیس کی سماعت ہوئی۔
اس دوران سیکریٹری آبپاشی نے بتایا کہ دسمبر 2021 تک اس ڈیم کی تعمیر مکمل ہوجائے گی- انہوں نے کہا کہ تکنیکی ماہرین نے بحریہ ٹاؤن کی پیشکش پر 108 سوالات اٹھائے۔
عدالت میں سیکریٹری آبپاشی نے بتایا کہ ڈھڈوچہ ڈیم کو اس کی اصل جگہ پر ہی تعمیر کیا جائے گا، ڈھائی سال تک یہ ڈیم تعمیر ہوجائے گا اور اس سلسلے میں عدالتی فیصلے پر من و عن عمل کریں گے۔ جس پر عدالت نے حکومت پنجاب کی یقین دہانی پر ڈھڈوچہ ڈیم کی تعمیر سے متعلق کیس نمٹا دیا۔
The Punjab government on Tuesday, during a hearing in the Supreme Court, rejected Bahria Town’s offer to build the Dadhocha Dam.
The proposal for the dam was finalised in 2001, however, the construction has yet to start. The reservoir is expected to provide 24 million gallons of water to Rawalpindi every day.
The Bahria Town had offered to construct the dam in three years in a joint venture with the DHA. Turning down the Bahria Town’s offer, the secretary irrigation, who appeared on behalf of the Punjab government, told the Supreme Court that the experts have raised 108 questions about the Bahria Town’s offer.
On Aug 4, 2015, the SC in a suo motu case had directed the Punjab government to construct the dam at the originally proposed site. Soon after these directives, the provincial government had banned the sale and purchase of land in the area and later allocated funds for the construction of the dam in its annual development plan for 2017-18.
On the SC’s directives, the Punjab government in 2017 initiated the process to construct the dam at a cost of Rs7 billion to overcome the water shortage in Rawalpindi.
During a November 2018 hearing of the case, headed by the then Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar, the court observed that a joint venture between Bahria Town and DHA was ready to construct the dam for free and added that the cabinet should make a final decision after reviewing their suggestions.
At the time, the court had said that the Punjab government should inform the cabinet if they wanted to construct the dam themselves.
The secretary assured the court that the dam will be constructed at its original location as per the court order. The Punjab government will complete the dam within two and a half to three years and construction will be completed by December 2021, the secretary said.
On the provincial government’s assurance, the court wrapped up the case.
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