Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Finance, Mohammad Hamayun Khan has said that the provincial government had evolved strategy for overcoming the problem of power shortage on war-footing and will launch work on 24 hydropower generation schemes.
Talking to a delegation from Malakand here in his residence on Tuesday, he said that due to low voltage, drinking water and even water for ablution was not available in the holy month of Ramazan to the people of Malakand which was a matter of great concern.
He said he had a detailed meeting with PESCO Chief Colonel Tariq Khan Saduzai (Retd.) in Peshawar in this regard and asked him to take stock of the prevailing situation due to low voltage and over loaded transformers and ensure remedial measures on priority basis which he promised within next ten days.
Humayun Khan said that water is a basic need for life but due to the wrong power policies of the former governments, it has become now a national issue. However, he added that the sitting provincial government has evolved a strategy on war footings to overcome power shortage under which 24 schemes would be started in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and so far 4 schemes including Lavi, Matiltan, Daral Khwar and Khan Khwar have recently been inaugurated while the rest 20 schemes are in pipeline, which on completion would solve the power crises on permanent basis.
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