Thar coal: Senator urges enhanced role of scientists

“There are huge quantities of deposits of coal in Thar Sindh”, Khawaja said.

ISLAMABAD: The role of Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) should be enhanced to speed up the Thar Coal Project for ending energy crisis in the country.

This was stated by Senator Karim Khawaja while talking to APP here on Tuesday. “There are huge quantities of deposits of coal in Thar Sindh and exploiting such deposits would resolve energy crisis by generating electricity at cheap rate in the country”, Khawaja said. He said that the Fuel Research Centre working under PCSIR can provide better services including technical assistance to take-holders of Thar Coal Project and in addition, focus on research and development on Underground Gasification of Coal.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 15^th, 2013.

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