LAHORE: The National Trans­mission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has detected various discrepancies in the construction of 500kV DG Khan grid station and recommended a detailed inquiry against all those involved.

An NTDC team has expressed wonder over selection of the land, acquired for the project, falling in the flood-prone area that caused collapse of the station’s boundary wall four times due to hailstorm and flashflood from May 13, 2019, to 2021, Dawn has learnt.

The team, during the visit, found severe kind of negligence carried out by the contractor under supervision of the NTDC Extra High Voltage-II wing and the consultants during execution of the project.

The discrepancies were reported to higher offices time and again through a series of correspondences since energisation of the grid station on September 9, 2014. But the quarters concerned showed an idle behaviour to solve the issues till now,” explains the letter written to the NTDC’s GM-North (Asset Manag­ement) by the inspecting team. The team termed the site selection for the grid station in flood area totally unjustified.

Published in Dawn, April 4th, 2022