Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the federal government was honouring its promise of steering the country out of the quagmire of problems and putting it onto the road of progress.
All out resources are being utilised for eliminating the country’s energy crisis, he said. The chief minister said that the federal government had carried out unprecedented work for the elimination of the energy crisis. He said that the current federal government had introduced a culture of working day and night and power plants were being completed expeditiously throughout the country for overcoming the energy shortage.
By the end of 2017, thousands of megawatts of electricity will be added to national grid with the completion of energy projects, he added.
He expressed these views while taking to office bearers of the PML-N.
The country was pushed into darkness due to the poor policies of former rulers, the chief minister said, adding that had past rulers made serious efforts for the elimination of the energy crisis, the country would not have had to face a shortage of energy.
He said that the energy sector was neglected during the recent dictatorial era while hurdles were also created for energy projects though aimless sit-ins. Shehbaz Sharif said that the current federal government was working on the generation of electricity through coal, wind, solar, gas, hydro, and other cheap sources.
In Punjab, gas based power stations with a generation capacity of 3600 megawatts are being set up using half the funds of such projects installed in the past, resulting in the provision of cheap electricity to the masses, he claimed.
The Sahiwal Coal Power Plant will be complete before the stipulated time period and will generate 1320 megawatts of electricity, he added. Shehbaz Sharif said that the PML-N had always done the politics of service, honesty, and hard work. He said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the country has been put on the road to peace and light, and people will cast their vote on the basis of performance in the 2018 elections.
