NA panel recommends Rs194b worth of power projects
Meeting notes SDG projects facing shortage of required materialISLAMABAD: A National Assembly panel has recommended Rs193.73 billion worth of development projects in budgetary proposals for the Power Division for next financial year 2018-19, which will start in July. Discussing implementation of its previous recommendations, the committee gave directives for framing a centralised procurement policy for the purchase of material for electricity infrastructure development schemes. Power Division Minister Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari said 80% of schemes under the SDGs programme would be completed by the end of April. He pledged that he would inform the committee about schemes under the SDGs one and two in the next one week. Parliamentarians complained that development schemes in their constituencies could not be completed as power distribution companies had not the required material.
Source: The Express Tribune February 22, 2018 05:15 UTC
