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| September 18, 2005 | Sunday | Sha'aban 13, 1426 |
Power projects to start soon
PESHAWAR, Sept 17: Minister of State for Water and Power Amir Muqam announced on Saturday that electricity projects worth more than Rs1 billion would be undertaken in the province within a period of two months. The minister, who presided over two high-level briefings here at Wapda House, also announced that work on water supply schemes would be carried out in the same period in Peshawar at a cost of Rs500 million.
The first briefing pertained to performance and initiatives taken by the new management of the Tribal Areas Electricity Supply Company (Tesco) with specific reference to meterization and recovery from tribal consumers.
Engineer Said Khan, Tesco’s chief executive, briefed the state minister about the new proposals being considered to bring tribal consumers into the electricity billing net.
Mr Muqam set a Dec 31 deadline for completion of all the schemes under Tameer-e-Pakistan Programme and projects highlighted under the directives of the president and prime minister in the NWFP.
He also instructed the authorities of Tesco to operationalize Ghallanai grid station in Mohmand Agency in a month’s time besides accelerating the pace of meterization, recovery of arrears and electricity billing from tribal consumers. He appreciated the formation of surveillance teams to check that no Tesco official was involved in the installation of illegal transformers and power connections in Fata.
Mr Muqam said Tesco was losing about Rs900 million every month in the tribal areas while the flow of electricity there was also not up to the mark and usually load management was carried out for hours on end.
He said that Fata’s electricity system could be improved when tribal people install meters and pay monthly bills for power consumption.—APP
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