LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that it is high time to shatter the darkness prevailing over the country for the last many years. The chief minister expressed these views while talking to a delegation of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in London.
The continued hard work of the PML-N government has borne fruit and it is the result of governmental efforts that thousand megawatts of electricity have been included in the system, he said. As a result, load-shedding in Pakistan has mostly reined in. The Sahiwal Coal Power Plant is producing 1320MW electricity while 400MW solar projects have been completed in Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park, Bahawalpur. He said that Punjab government has decided to set up a new gas power plant of 1200MW capacity to meet the energy needs of the future. The gas based energy projects will provide cheap electricity to the people, he added.
He said that a new history of hard work, honesty, transparency, dedication and continued work has been written with regard to progress on energy projects. There is no example of such savings in the development projects in the history of the country, he said. The energy projects are harbingers of development and prosperity as millions of people would benefit from them.
The chief minister continued that the past rulers usurped the national resources but paid no heed to the energy crisis. He said that China has made investments in different sectors to the tune of billions of dollars and as much as 36 billion dollars have been invested in energy projects.
