HYDERABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has said the Sindh Nooriabad Power Company would soon start generating 100-megawatt electricity.
The chief minister expressed these views during his visit to the under-construction project in Nooriabad, Jamshoro district, on Sunday.
He was briefed about the project.
The CM said that so far no other province had initiated such a power project as part of the public-private partnership venture.
“Such projects were started by former President Asif Ali Zardari under the public-private partnership,” he said, adding that the provincial government owned 49 percent share in the company while the private partner had 51 percent shares.
Shah lamented that the project’s completion was delayed due to some official hindrances but the Sindh Government continued to pursue the project which would soon be completed.
“If there were no obstacles, the project would have been functioning by now,” he said.
Earlier, while briefing the CM Sindh Nooriabad Power Company Director Khursheed Jamali informed that the project’s inauguration would be held in a month’s time.
Jamali told that the project’s construction started in August 2014, at a cost of Rs13 billion.
He apprised the chief minister that the Sindh Transmission and Dispatch Company (STDC)has laid 95 kilometres long transmission line to Karachi for selling the company’s electricity to the Karachi Electric Supply Company Limited (K-Electric). The STDC had spent Rs 2 billion on the lines, he added.
He told that the power was being generated through a gas.
Jamali said, per unit cost of the power generation was Rs 9 while the same would be sold to the K-Electric at Rs15.50 per unit.
