ISLAMABAD: The shortfall of 4000 megawatts in the country has put a big question mark on the announcement made by the government of not carrying out load shedding in the approaching holy month of Ramadan.
The load management plan devised by the government has become uttely unsuccessful as the people from urban areas are facing load shedding of 12 to 14 hours daily whereas the citizens from rural areas have to bear at least 14 to 18 hours daily. As a result of this due everyday living of the people has been paralysed.
The long hours of load shedding and series of protests in different parts of the country have exposed the tall claims of the government .
The government has shown big dreams to the people about eradication of the menace of load shedding, but as the mercury rose up, the apparition of load shedding got out of control.
The power generation project started by the government could not give the required results . One precedent of failure of these projecs is Quaid-e-Azam Solar Power Project , which was built for the generation of 100 megawatts but at the time it is giving only 18 MW of electricity.
The cause of the collapsing of the project is the wrong feasibility report as the government did not study the PC-1 of the project thoroughly .
Reliable sources told the Daily Times the government wants to sell the Quaid Azam Solar Energy Park to some blue eyed person , but as a matter of fact it costs billion of rupees to the national exchequer .
The sources also told that the Nandipur power project also did not succeed in achieving its target at the moment. The government bought the costliest electricity from the project in 2014-15, but due to incomplete and substandard work, the project was first stopped and then restarted , but now it is producing a very low quantity of electricity.
The government has kicked off work on two thermal coal projects at Muzaffargarh and purchased land for these projects but because of conflicts between owners of the land , these projects are in doldrums. The task of buying the land was assigned to the local administration which is going on at a sluggish pace.
Moreover the people of the area are bewildered that after commencing these projects , they would have to suffer different types of diseases.
The 1600 mw Kot Addu project is running but after its privatization its De-Sulphur plant has been shut down and according to international standard of environment the installation of De-Sulphur plant is must or else the population should be shifted to another place around the radius of 30 kilometres.