Shujaat proposes formula to end power outages

Pakistan Muslim League President Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain presented a simple formula on Monday to end the ongoing electricity load shedding in the country.
Unfolding the formula while talking to media at his Gulberg residence here this afternoon, he said that installed power generation capacity in the country was 23000 megawatt against which 15000 megawatt of power was being produced daily.
He added that remaining power plants were either closed or producing less electricity against their installed capacity for want of resources to meet oil and other requirements for the power plants.
He said that under the NFC Award, provinces were to get another total amount of Rs 50 billion during the remaining three months of the current financial year.
He said if the Federation deducts this amount for the remaining three months and allocates the same amount to the power plants, there will be no reason why electricity load shedding is not fully eliminated in cities and its duration will also be reduced in the rural areas considerably.
He said if the provincial governments cooperate with the Federation, this problem could easily be solved in this manner.
He said further that success of this simple formula depends on the large heartedness and positive thinking of all the chief ministers of the provinces. He said as a result of this, mills would start working again, unemployment would be reduced to a great extent, protesting workers would restart working on their machines and national economy would start getting better and growing.
He added that a full-fledged campaign should be launched against incidents of power thefts and it should be enforced forcefully so that honest electricity consumers might not unnecessarily over-burdened. This would be a step in the right direction in improving the national economy, he added.
PML-N protest rally was wrong and unjustified; he said and added that they were the well wishers of the people and allies of the government, that is why, they were giving this advice to the government because this could lead to eliminate electricity load shedding.