Former Chairman of PIAF and former member of LCCI Executive Committee Mian Abuzar Shad has demanded of the government to make some extraordinary efforts to overcome the ongoing energy crisis in the whole country including Karachi as Karachi City is not the only affectee.
In a press statement here on Friday, Mian Abuzar Shad said that nobody could deny the worth of Pakistan's largest city but energy crisis was hitting hard the whole country. He said the prolonged load shedding has destroyed the industrial sector.
Particularly those thousands small and medium industrial units had been closed which had no resources to install generators or any other alternate power system. Mian Abuzar Shad said that Kalabagh Dam was the major solution to the ongoing. He said Raja Pervez Ashraf still claiming the load shedding would come to end by the end of December 2009 but how, no one knows.
He said Kalabagh Dam could generate near 3600 MW electricity. He said that storage capacity of Tarbela, Mangla and Chashma reservoirs being decreased and if timely steps were not taken, it may become difficult to provide water for irrigation. Mian Abuzar urged the government to feel the pain of industrialists, traders and take measures to fill the gap between demand and supply of electricity otherwise business community would be compelled to kick off strong protest.
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