Switching to alternatives: ‘Electricity prices to be reduced soon’
the minister said the government has launched various projects in the past 12 months that will yield results soon.
SARGODHA:
Federal Minister for Commerce Khurram Dastgir has said all possible resources are being utilised to convert power plants to coal within two years that will reduce electricity prices. Addressing an oath-taking ceremony of newly-elected members of Anjuman-e-Tajran, the minister said the government has launched various projects in the past 12 months that will yield results soon. He said the government had set up two power plants at Gaddani that will generate 6,000 megawatts (MW) electricity, adding that the work has been started at the 2,100MW-Nuclear Atomic plant in Karachi. “Not a single dam had been constructed in the country since 1974 after the Tarbela dam, but the present government has initiated work on the Dasu dam with an estimated cost of Rs600 million,” he said. Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan Affairs Hamid Hameed, Member of Provincial Assembly Abdul Razzaq Dhilun and a large number of traders were also present at the occasion.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 20th, 2014.
Federal Minister for Commerce Khurram Dastgir has said all possible resources are being utilised to convert power plants to coal within two years that will reduce electricity prices. Addressing an oath-taking ceremony of newly-elected members of Anjuman-e-Tajran, the minister said the government has launched various projects in the past 12 months that will yield results soon. He said the government had set up two power plants at Gaddani that will generate 6,000 megawatts (MW) electricity, adding that the work has been started at the 2,100MW-Nuclear Atomic plant in Karachi. “Not a single dam had been constructed in the country since 1974 after the Tarbela dam, but the present government has initiated work on the Dasu dam with an estimated cost of Rs600 million,” he said. Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan Affairs Hamid Hameed, Member of Provincial Assembly Abdul Razzaq Dhilun and a large number of traders were also present at the occasion.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 20th, 2014.