LAHORE: State Minister for Power Chaudhry Abid Sher Ali on Wednesday said that the PML-N government would make Pakistan load-shedding free before the end of its constitutional tenure.
Addressing the inaugural ceremony of 220-KV grid station costing Rs1,966 million in Gujrat, he said that people had to face load-shedding of 18 hours in a day in 2013 but the situation had now completely changed. He added that the PML-N government had added 7,500-megawatt electricity in the system, and 660-megawatt electricity from Port Qasim would also be included till November 15.
Appreciating the measures taken by the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) for ongoing projects of transmission lines and grid stations, Abid Sher Ali announced a bonus equal to one month salary for NTDC employees.
He said that Nandipur power project would also supply 525-megawatt electricity under combine cycle to national grid station, adding that Neelam-Jehlum project was launched in Pervez Musharraf’s era which had not generated a single megawatt till former president Asif Ali Zardari’s regime.
He also said that load-shedding had been ended in industries, adding that 12,000-megawatt electricity would be added to the national grid till March next year.
The transmission systems were also further updated to ensure uninterrupted supply of newly generated electricity in the country, he said and added that 90 per cent work on Neelam-Jehlum transmission line had been completed.
“The project would add 250-megawatt electricity till March 2018, and 965-megawatt electricity would be added to the national grid through the project till June 2018,” he said.
The work on Diamer-Bhasha Dam has been initiated, he said and added that Central Asia South Asia (CASA)-1000 agreement has been signed and the transmission work would soon be started.
The PML-N government completed the projects transparently to facilitate the people, he said. He added that no one could prove corruption of a single rupee in these electricity projects.
The minister also said that the PML-N was working hard to serve the people of the country. The former prime minister Nawaz Sharif himself had monitored the development projects to ensure transparency and progress, he maintained.
Abid Sher Ali also said that other political parties were afraid of the PML-N as it was popular among the masses due to its development-oriented policies. The PML-N government has brought an investment of Rs152 billion in the country, he added.
He further stated that the PML-N would win the general elections 2018, as it has worked to serve the people by setting up a number of development projects to put the country on the way to progress and prosperity. He added that there was huge corruption in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) projects and six ministers of KP government were sacked on corruption charges.
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