Former Commerce Minister Gohar Ijaz has said that the government is buying power at Rs 750 per unit from a power plant due to IPPs agreements.
IPPs contracts become a bottleneck, it has been revealed that one power plant is buying electricity at Rs 750 per unit.
Gohar Ejaz says that I raised my voice once morest forty families by sharing the data to save the country from them, the government is buying electricity from coal power plants at an average of 200 rupees per unit, from solar and wind power plants at 50 per unit. It is being bought in excess.
He said that all these power plants are running at less than 20% capacity, 1.95 trillion rupees have been paid to these IPPs, the outstanding amount of 160 billion rupees is being confirmed by the government. 150 billion rupees, whose load factor is less than 15 percent.
The former commerce minister shared the capacity payments data on social media
The former commerce minister said that the government is paying 140 billion rupees to a power plant whose load factor is 15 percent, and paying 120 billion rupees to a power plant that is running at 17 percent load factor. 100 billion is being paid to the plant running on percentage load.
Sindh
Weather is likely to remain hot and humid in most of the districts of Sindh, however, wind/thunderstorm and thundershowers are likely at a few places in Tharparkar, Umarkot, Mithi, Mirpur Khas, Sanghar, Badin, Thatta, Karachi and Sajawal.
Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan
Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan are expected to remain partly cloudy, with gusty winds and thundershowers at few places. On the other hand, monsoon rains have been predicted in Punjab and Balochistan from today to July 20.
Prediction of heavy monsoon rains in Quetta
On the other hand, the meteorological department has predicted more monsoon rains in July and August in Quetta
Warning of Monsoon rains in Azad Kashmir, 66 drains declared extremely dangerous
The Balochistan government and PDMA authorities had issued instructions to the Metropolitan Corporation to clean all the city’s drains and remove encroachments before the arrival of monsoon rains, but the encroachments might not be completely removed from the city’s main drains.
In this regard, Commissioner Quetta and Administrator Metropolitan Corporation Hamza Shafqat said that there are 4 types of drains in Quetta, 15 rain drains are with the Irrigation Department, while one drain is under the supervision of the Communications and Construction Department, 82 drains are cleaned by the Metropolitan. The corporation is responsible.
Intensity of heat continues in Karachi, wind and rain forecast
He said that the drains under the supervision of Metropolitan Corporation have been cleaned with the help of PDMA.
Administrator Metropolitan Corporation Hamza Shafqat said that under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner Quetta, the work of removing encroachments on the city drain is going on, which is 60 to 70 percent complete.
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2024-07-22 01:55:59
