AJK Electricity Minister Sardar Mir Akbar Khan has said six more new grid stations will be installed in different parts of Azad Kashmir to help facilitate the consumers.
This was stated by him while addressing a press conference here on Tuesday.
The minister said that Rs 545 million has been incurred to ensure provision of electricity to the people in the seven districts of Azad Kashmir during 2003, adding the approval has been accorded for six more grid stations to be installed at different places in AJK which will help reduce line losses, and improve electricity supply system.
He said necessary and appropriate measures were under way to resolve the voltage problem after reduction in the tariff measures were being taken to provide relief to the electricity consumers, saying with the cost of Rs 500 million some more new grid stations will be installed in AJK to resolve the voltage problem control line losses and improve the electricity supply in the area.
Sardar Akbar Khan was of the view that we have a very vast hydel power potential in AJK as through a comprehensive strategy we could go towards the right path of self-reliance and could raise our budget to Rs 20 billion, saying there was a need to explore and utilise this huge available potential in a proper way.
He said the AJK government under the leadership of Premier Sikandar Hayyat Khan was committed to providing every possible facilities to our people at their door steps, adding all out efforts were under way to bring the area on the path of progress and prosperity.
Mir Akbar Khan giving the district-wise details of expenditures incurred during the year 2003 as follows:
He said Rs 129.3 million was spent for the installation of some 6,525 poles and 227 transformers during 2003 in district Muzaffarabad as some 14,000 people were provided electricity in the area.
In district Bagh, Rs 98.5 million was spent for the installation of 4,134 poles and 169 transformers as some 23,000 people were provided electricity, he added.
In Sudhanoti, Rs 105.5 million was spent for the installation of 237 transformers as some 29,000 people of the area were provided electricity facility.
In District Kotli, he said Rs106.1 million was incurred as 11,000 people were provided electricity.
He said Rs 106.2 million was spent in Mirpur and Bhimber districts for the installation of 4,200 poles and 263 transformers as some 23,000 people got facility of the electricity in the area.
He told a scheme of Rs 80 million has been approved for the repair of old and faulty transformers at the local level instead of sending it to Lahore for maintenance, he added.
He also said the work for the rehabilitation of electricity supply near the Line of Control areas, due to the Indian shelling, has been started as Rs 124.6 million has been approved in this regard, saying till now Rs 102.5 million has been spent in this connection. he added.
The minister also said in every AJK district the workshop will be set up for the repair of old and out of order transformers to expedite the work, and save charges and expenditures in this regard, saying schemes in this regard was in final stage.
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