 Funding is being provided by the World Bank ($700 million), the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ($1.5 billion), Deutsche Bank ($1 billion) and Aga Khan Development Network ($500 Million).On 1st April 2020, World Bank approved an additional $700 million in financing, with the funds to be used for the transmission line that will complete the first 2,160 MW phase of the project on the Indus River.In December 2015, Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) signed a contract worth Rs571.95 million with China Railway First Group for construction at resettlement sites and building the Shatial museum – two schemes that are part of the Dasu hydroelectric power project.