LARKANA, Oct 13: In order to meet the growing need of electricity in Larkana circle, the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company has decided to set up a new grid station of 132kv (Larkana III) soon.

According to Hesco sources, the grid station was being constructed under its 6th secondary transmission lines and grid stations (STG) programme 2005-2010.

It was aimed at developing electrical infrastructure in Sindh province with the sole object of meeting the rising demand in urban areas and providing basic amenity of electricity to the rural areas for the uplift of their socio economic conditions.

In this connection, the Hesco Chief Maqbool Ahmed Kahwaja, in a letter dated 7th October, 2006 to the district nazim of Larkana, Mohammad Bukhsh Arijo, sought support of the district government in acquiring the required land.

The WAPDA’s team of ‘Site Selection and Layout Board’ from Lahore, had lately visited Larkana and selected a an eight acre piece near the Mohammad Brohi village on airport road, sources in the district government confided to Dawn on Friday.

The chief of Hesco seeking support of the district nazim of Larkana indicated that if land in question was not timely acquired, not only the development work would be delayed but also the whole programme could be revised.

In this context, the Hesco chief had asked the chief engineer grid stations construction to personally call on the district nazim and district coordination officer of 1Larkana.

In order to expedite the work, the district nazim Larkana Mohammad Bakhsh Arijo, on Thursday directed the EDO (Revenue) Larkana to expedite the matter and it was learnt that district government had, in principle, decided to handover the piece of the spotted land to the Hesco.