SHANGLA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz provincial president Amir Muqam has urged the government to end excessive and unscheduled electricity loadshedding and also resume work on the under-construction grid station in the Shangla district.

Talking to reporters in his native Puran town, the PML-N’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief said the Pesco was observing over 20 hours of loadshedding in Puran, Makhozi and Martung tehsils, causing hardship to the locals despite the fact that they regularly paid the bills.

“We had approved the Rs500 million 132KW grid station for Makhozi, Puran and Martung tehsils, and about 80 per cent work on it had been completed but the incumbent government has failed to complete rest of the work,” the PML-N senior leader lamented.

Mr Muqam said the government was trying to shut the Nadra centres in Shangla and was delaying blacktopping of the Khwazakhela-Alpuri Road.

He said if he again got the chance he would focus on starting development projects in the district.

Published in Dawn, September 20th, 2020