Ex-president Asif Ali Zardari arrives to inaugurate power plant in Sukkur. PHOTO: NNI
Pakistan Peoples Party Co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari on Monday laid the foundation stone of two hydel power plants in Sukkur. One plant will be built at Rohri Canal and the other at Nara Canal, the two offshoots of left pocket of Sukkur Barrage.
The plant at RD-27 of Rohri Canal will be installed at a cost of $36.4 million, while the other will be built at RD-15 of Nara Canal at a cost of $47 million.
Both the power plants will be operated on run-of-river basis and are billed to be completed within 20 months. These power stations are being built by the Sindh government under the public-private partnership mechanism. Zardari was accompanied by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and the provincial minister for finance and energy, Syed Murad Ali Shah.
All the roads leading to Sukkur Barrage and the national highway were closed for traffic, as the former president opted to travel to the inauguration site in a motorcade instead of using a helicopter.
Media persons were not allowed to cover the ceremony. The provincial minister for finance and energy, Murad Ali Shah, who was supposed to brief journalists in the office of the executive engineer Sukkur Barrage, asked the barrage authorities to send the media representatives to the Sukkur airport for the briefing.
The media persons, however, boycotted the briefing in protest.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 6th, 2015.
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Hey, Idea! Use Bakhtawar Beti to work on Thar Children! Why not? The Children will remember her and the nation will see her as Life Giver to the poor and the destitute. A good beginning.. She will Walk in the Foot Steps if not anybody famous then how about last visitor for the same purpose Angelina Jolie, who cried more for Pak destitute than any of our Show Business icons or public leaders.
What about spending some money on the innocent children of Thar who are dying of Hunger and Thirst? What about spending some money to eliminate corruption from the most corrupt province of Pakistan? What about spending some money on the education of people of Sindh?
Well done ............. ' Team Bilawal '.
how many megawatts will they produce? + please next time use your helicopter,people really dont like VIP culture any more
It is so sad that the ex-president had to travel by road. The Sind government should try to get the AW139 helicopter delivered at the earliest!
@AVMPolpot: Thought you were in mental institution. Evidently they released you.
Dear Mr former President, Kindly stop children from dying in Thar. Your's sincerely, a resident of Sindh.
A good positive news in the doom and gloom. Continue to work on these uplift projects and people would continue to vote for you. The hatemongers can belittle the voters but they know who is doing work and who is simply spreading hate no matter how good the job is. There would not be any positive reaction from urban elites no matter what is done.
Why did the PPP not think of these two hydel power plants in the first term? Why now? Anyway, as long as it lessens the grievances of the citizens of the area, the better for them. Salams
" Trip to Sukkur: Zardari inaugurates two hydel power plants" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Only in Pakistan: Inauguration is used to describe laying of the Foundation stone. Wah Wah. And why is the Reporter shy of listing the rated Power Generation?:). Perhaps someday there will be Investigative Journalism in Pakistan.
In what basis he is putting his name plate everywhere in the Sindh.
he thinks ostensibly that now, this is the way to be pm
Time to groom Bakhtawar Bhutto. Little Baby Bhutto failed. In spite of two coming out parties/cotillions......Mohenjodaro and Karachi. And him, sulking in London and Paris does not look good. Bakhtawar will do well.