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Ministry given 10 days to generate 13,500MW

STAFF REPORT Wednesday, 20 Jun 2012 11:57 am | Comments

ISLAMABAD - A high-level meeting on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Water and Power to increase power generation to 13,500MW during the next 10 days for which the Ministry of Petroleum will supply 207 mmcfd of gas to the power sector and ensure requisite fuel supply to power plants.
The Ministry of Finance was directed to provide sufficient funds for the purpose.
It is expected that the power generation will increase by 40 percent from the present level of 10,500MW.
It was also decided to set up a Crisis Management Cell in the Ministry of Water and Power to monitor the situation on a permanent basis to preempt the crisis situation.
The cell will work under the supervision of the Cabinet Committee on Energy.
Distribution companies were asked to ensure equitable distribution of electricity, especially to far-flung and the less-developed regions of the country.
For the purpose of equitable distribution, it was also decided that the distribution network must ensure transparency so that all the regions of the country get fair share of electricity and equal load shedding. It was also decided in the meeting that lift irrigation and agriculture tube wells would continue to be the priority of the government as the major population of the country depended on the sector.
It was also decided that NEPRA will pursue on proactive basis the upfront tariff for the electricity generated by using bagasse. The meeting was informed that the Planning Commission approved a project of 4,000 solar powered tube wells with 50 percent subsidy in the provinces and 100 percent subsidy in Balochistan at a total cost of Rs 13 billion, with a subsidy element of Rs 8 billion.
This will release about 60MW of power for the national grid. The project, according to the Planning Commission, will commence from July 1.

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Nawaz starts working on strategy to fix load shedding crisis

desi

I'm not going to get into the finger pointing but what I would ask the Sharifs is to look into the people and companies who owe million and billions in bills,that includes the Pakistani government.There has to be accountability in paying electric bills,paying taxes,until the government does that,there is no moving forward,how do they plan to pay for everything if there is no money coming in????????????????? And lets not forget the loans that have to be pad.

PML-N’s Changez Marri emerges as strong candidate for office of Balochistan CM

jungeeshah

Now look at this guy standing next to Nawaz Sharif, he is so shy even he cant look up. feel sorry for balochistan. His dady is still nawab than how the hell he became nawab and nawab of what and where.

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desi

No,no surprise here,one by one they will all pay,first Raja rental and now Malik,Im waiting for the day when the immunity will not save the leader mans hyde hahahahahahahahahaha.delete this comment too PT

PML-N’s Changez Marri emerges as strong candidate for office of Balochistan CM

jungeeshah

why in Balochistan sardar or mir or nawabzada as becomes a chief minister straight way they start been called NAWAB in media and government papers.

Passport crisis: 'Rehman Malik ordered director to award tender to ‘favourite’ firm'

DualNational

Does this news surprise anyone? Its just the tip of the iceburg. I'm surprised that nobody has implicated him in BB's murder yet. Lets be honest. He had her killed on zardari's orders. And thats the truth!!!

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Mohammad Akram

Its very sad that Altaf Hussain reacted in anger and his words were not acceptable to any law abiding citizen. Sitting in London and telling his audience in Pakistan to fire those who were assembled for their rights in Karachi. I personally condemn his action and words Surely British Government will take necessary action London is not a hiding place and creating turmoil and hatred in a sovereign country Pakistan was out of line. He should be punished in accordance with the law of the United Kingdom. British Government is slow but very prices in handling cases of terrorism. According the work and nature of Altaf Husssain he is a danger to our society. and doing damage to the relation of two countries. Better its is stopped for good by giving him warning/sentence.

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Javed Iqbal

This is good joke...a real good one after a long time

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This is big swing after a recount and proves that ECP officials are incompetent. They were on drugs while counting either first time or the second time or willfully manipulated the results on either one of the two counts. This incident also puts a question mark on the integrity of the election results from rest of the country.

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m.s.akhtar

It is most unfortunate that our nation is still unaware about anti-pakistan elements and miserably suffering from their conspiracies. It is very sad that every leader is claiming to make country Quaid's state.but it is a fact that only our leaders backed by our enemy country broke hard earned Quaids Pakistan.

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defence.pk/forums/central-south-asia/253512-operation-hangover.html

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Nawaz starts working on strategy to fix load shedding crisis

PML-N’s Changez Marri emerges as strong candidate for office of Balochistan CM

Passport crisis: 'Rehman Malik ordered director to award tender to ‘favourite’ firm'

PML-N’s Changez Marri emerges as strong candidate for office of Balochistan CM

Passport crisis: 'Rehman Malik ordered director to award tender to ‘favourite’ firm'

Social media reacts to Altaf’s statement, calls London police

We must ban falafel in school lunches: Bachmann

PTI’s Ishaq Khakwani loses after re-count

Social media reacts to Altaf’s statement, calls London police

Operation Hangover: India’s three-year silent cyber war on Pakistan

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