Wapda has made significant improvement in its efficiency

Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has made significant improvement in its efficiency and the present management with major thrust in turning it to a development organisation is determined to put in its optimum to keep this progressive pace continued.
Wapda Chairman Tariq Hamid stated this while talking to a visiting delegation of the 33rd PN Staff Course of Pakistan Navy War College here on Friday.
The delegation headed by the College Commandant Commodore M Arshad Hussain comprised 10 faculty and 77 course members including 8 allied officers from Bangladesh, China, Nigeria, Philippine, Qatar, Sri Lanka and Turkey.
Tariq said that Wapda was now in the safer harbour and it had now become a viable organisation. We have a base line and will not let it go down, he added.
Referring to the system losses, he said that the reduction in line losses was amongst his priorities.
Earlier, Wapda Secretary Khawaja Shaukat Ali briefed the delegation about underlying principles for creation of Wapda, major policy thrust, increase in revenue, power generation, number of consumers and connections, decrease in line losses, improvement in customer services, settlement with IPPs, payments to IPPs and restructuring of Wapda, besides highlighting post-restructuring scenario.
The delegation was also apprised of Water Resources and Hydropower Development Programme - Vision 2025.
The visiting officers were apprised that with the completion of various fast track projects under this programme within three to four years, a considerable water storage capacity would be available and more than 3.2 million acres of new lands would be irrigated whereas the power generated through these projects would be sufficient to meet the energy requirements of the country for the next five years.
Later, Tariq Hamid and M Arshad Hussain exchanged souvenirs as memento of the visit.