25,000 villages electrified, 10 mil electric items bought in 2007, 12 bijli projects

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**12 thermal power projects to produce 2,346MWs of electricity **
Saturday, January 12, 2008

ISLAMABAD: Twelve thermal power projects are being finalised to add 2,346 Megawatt (MW) of electricity to the national grid in the next three years.

According to spokesmen of the Ministry of Water and Power and WAPDA, a meeting is planned for tomorrow to resolve issues regarding Thar coal utilisation for power generation. The spokesmen said deposits in Thar hold 175 billion tonnes of coal but require special technology for exploitation because of high contents of sulphur, and the provision of necessary infrastructure for the purpose.

On hydroelectric power, they said that apart from work on the Bhasha dam feasibility, a contract had also been awarded for a 1,000 MW Neelum-Jhelum project, which would be completed in the next five years. Work is also in progress on the 2,200 MW Munda dam feasibility, they added.

The spokesmen said a comprehensive five-year programme for the improvement of the distribution system had been launched to reduce line losses. The Asian Development Bank is providing $600 million and the World Bank $300 million to upgrade grid stations, distribution transformers and improve distribution lines, they added.

They said the power shortage had been caused by a rapid increase in demand, issues of fuel supply and the prevailing law and order situation. Consumers bought about 10 million pieces of electrical appliances such as ACs, refrigerators, freezers, micro-wave ovens, washing machines, TVs and fans in just one year, they said. Moreover, 25,000 villages have been electrified putting further pressure on the supply.

The spokesmen said independent power producers were required to keep fuel for 21 days to meet any emergency, but fuel was kept for only two to three days. Notices have been issued to them in terms of power purchase agreements, they added. nni

Daily Times

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Re: 25,000 villages electrified, 10 mil electric items bought in 2007, 12 bijli proje

And the load shedding continues more than 10 hours a day. Lets give electricity to 25,000 more villages and than we will have 20 hours load shedding.

It happens only under Mush.

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Re: 25,000 villages electrified, 10 mil electric items bought in 2007, 12 bijli proje

^^ its because of oil jumping at 100 ...and gas shortage, then no rain for months. Make sense ?

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Is it not nice? Sub share ker kay raho .. aur share ker kay kaho ... even if it is little one shares ... and if there is one bread one eat but little :)

Seems, days are over when NS could waste money 'to grow hair on his ganja sar' with looted public money while people have no money to buy comb ... and BB buying palaces all over the world with looted public money ... while people live in jhuggis and go hungry. When Imran dates Jamima, Sita, Goldy Hawn and God's know who ... but preaches Islam, Jirga laws, and morality to Pakistanis while ... Pakistani men get convicted by Jirga and get killed as 'karo' even when they talk to other woman.

Duplicity has to go where few gets all and can do anything moral or immoral ... and most gets nothing :)

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And now people don't even have basic things like atta thanks to Mush even though the "Mush can do no wrong" group will not agree.

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I think credit should be given where its due, and power production should have been part of the plan. If not whats the point? Your village may have dead power-lines...which you can use to strangulate yourself while waiting for bijli. :D

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Re: 25,000 villages electrified, 10 mil electric items bought in 2007, 12 bijli proje

I think you are right that destribution should have coupled with production. Unfortunately, I think that production did not kept pace with increase in country's electricity requirements and was left behind (rather I believe that first few years of Musharraf rule did not see any increase in electricity production).

Anyhow, problem is that economical growth before Musharraf government was so slow that Pakistan electricity production was more than need and increase in demand was slugish. Problem was in distribution facilities to utilize all electricity production in the country. It was expected that production was enough that if economy grows at modest pace, electricity production is enough to meet demand for next 10 years.

Unfrotunately, distribution excercise was taken without thinking that country can go into rapid growth path too (as at that time, even to stablise growth and sustanin economy was thought difficult and was considered a big achievement if happens). Well, growth got stabilised and economy got sustained within first two years and then economy went into rapid growth path that started increasing demand at very high pace, such that today there is shortage of electricity production too.

It does not mean that at present per capita electricity consumption in Pakistan is lower than it was in 1999, but unfortunately with such economical growth, Pakistan per capita electricity consumption has increased quite rapidly (as per capita income increased from less than $500 to $925 today), and government acted much slowly to cover that increasing demand by increasing electricity production than they should have.

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masallah, more development under mush, god bless him and the booming economy of pakistan

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Alahamdulilallah. This is excellent news. Long may the development continue. :k:

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Re: 25,000 villages electrified, 10 mil electric items bought in 2007, 12 bijli proje

right, and we're living without electricity.

what use exactly are these headlines?

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Re: 25,000 villages electrified, 10 mil electric items bought in 2007, 12 bijli proje

Are Lahore and Karachi villages?

Why do you pretend everything is going great, and ignore the ground reality?

http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showthread.php?t=274139

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Re: 25,000 villages electrified, 10 mil electric items bought in 2007, 12 bijli proje

It would be interesting to see what areas are subject to load-shedding and what not. Some areas suffer more than others, theres got to be some "influence" somewhere deciding who gets more share of loadshedding.

Usually it was summer when we will have loadshedding, winters were with much less interference.... and now we have loadshedding in the winter... great.

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People in lala land need to stay happy.

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kahan ki baat kar rahay ho bhai?

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Re: 25,000 villages electrified, 10 mil electric items bought in 2007, 12 bijli proje

People should start paying for electricity, rather than kunda baazi.

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Re: 25,000 villages electrified, 10 mil electric items bought in 2007, 12 bijli proje

There should be law enforcement to stop people from doing kunda baazi... hint: Law.