Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak revealed on Wednesday that the provincial government would sign an MoU for two combined hydro power projects with SINO hydro company China for the production of 610MW of electricity on March 31.
He further disclosed that different hydro power undertakings would be put on ground during his tenure in office. These projects he assured would enter the implementation phase shortly and after completion, these projects would produce 4000 mega watt of electricity, he hoped.
He was presiding over a high level meeting at CM House Peshawar. Provincial Minister for Education & Energy Muhammad Atif Khan, administrative secretaries and other high ranking officials attended the meeting. The meeting had a detailed discussion on different projects, the provincial government was executing in the foreseeable future.
The CM in his remarks said that different clusters of 100 projects in different departments have been finalised as CPEC and Non CPEC projects for onward marketing into the Beijing Road Show.
Regarding the public-private partnership projects (PPP), the chief minister argued, his government has eased out different complications in the PPP, adding that there are different elements rendering the developmental strategy slower that included the wastage of time and resources, the cost escalation, unnecessary litigation, lake of transparency, corrupt practices that delay the timely completion of developmental schemes and therefore the people got at the receiving end.
PPP was otherwise the best approach for transparency and quality in the developmental strategy; therefore the existing complications within the PPP were taken care of and the targets became achievable that was the essence of his government policy, he added.
Regarding the standard guidelines of the MoUs for the projects of different departments, the chief minister remarked his government wanted the movement of the Frontier Works Organization (FWO) on different projects at fast track as assured by the FWO.
He said his government eliminated corruption that was the main reason that foreign investors were coming to the province. He said his government has already tracked the province towards expeditious development adding that transparent governance and eliminating corruption were impossible in the past but his government made it possible.
