FAISALABAD: Minister for Power Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan said that all development projects, put in cold store during last 4 years are being revived. Addressing inaugural ceremony of 220-KV Lalian grid station completed with Rs 4 billion, he said when Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz came to power in 2013, country was facing worst-ever load-shedding of 18 to 20 hours per day.

Similarly, country was also experiencing terrorism and killings were continuing in Karachi and other parts of country. He lamented that an anti-development group succeeded in grabbing power and development process was stopped, which remained suspended for last four years.

“We will once again restore same momentum of progress and prosperity which country experienced during 2013-2018,” he said, adding that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would also proceed to China on November 1 and government would restart work on different projects under CPEC with a renewed commitment and zeal. In that connection, work on 775-megawatt Karot hydroelectric power project had already been started while work on 1,320MW Shanghai Thar coal project would be initiated very soon.

He said that coalition government’s mission was to put Pakistan on road to progress and prosperity.

National Transmission and Dispatch Company had finalised different projects in all provinces with an estimated cost of Rs 1,000 billion. Later, he visited Jhang Road near Churagh Abad Interchange where he inaugurated another project of 500-KV Painsara grid station, which was completed with an estimated cost of Rs 16.9 billion. Managing Director NTDC Dr. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan said grid station projects would not only strengthen transmission network of NTDC in region but also help tackle increasing demand of electricity of domestic, industrial, commercial and agri consumers of Faisalabad, Jhang, Chiniot, Toba Tek Singh, Samundari, Gojra, Jaranwala, Chenab Nagar, Chiniot Industrial, Sargodha, Ludewala, Narwala Road, Thikriwala, Lalian and their peripheral localities.

Published in The Daily National Courier, November, 01 2022

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