**Rs 6/unit hydel (in KP) is too expensive for PMLN.So they go for Rs 18 coal (in Punjab) instead.
I would love to see Anti PTI brigade comments about this
**ISLAMABAD: **The federal government has refused to clear a hydroelectric power project in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, finding its total cost at Rs21.5 billion or generation cost at Rs6.02 per unit exaggerated.
The decision came after the provincial government sought clearance of the details, design and construction of the 84-megawatt Gorkin Matiltan Hydropower Project in Swat from the Central Development Working Party (CDWP).
Headed by Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Ahsan Iqbal, the CDWP has powers to approve up to Rs3 billion worth of projects and recommend mega schemes for approval of the Executive Committee of National Economic Council.
Re: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa venture: Swat hydropower project gets govt thumbs down
This is what happens when politics decide matters or national importance, shun cheaper projects for unfeasible new expensive ones and then wonder why there is circular debt worth billions. In any case this debt is paid by the same people who vote these insensitive people in the first place. The current circular debt is due to the policies of the two main parties (in the 90’s).
Re: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa venture: Swat hydropower project gets govt thumbs down
This is retarded. Honestly why would they do this? If we get clean and safe electricity without any problems in water storage, flooding etc then go for it.
Also equally as retarded KPK government actually blocked the sale of the OGPPL or whatever the acronym is. More so they did so with no logic or basis whatsoever.