LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has directed the authorities concerned to complete work on two coal-based power plants in Sahiwal.
The Chinese company briefed the chief minister about the coal-powered electricity generation plants. He was told that the company was in the process of procuring turbines, power generators and boilers needed at the construction site.
The provincial government has given the contract for construction of the plants with a combined power generation capacity of 1,320 megawatts to a Chinese power company, Hauneng Shandong. Hauneng Shandong president and other senior managers joined the meeting through a video-link.
Sharif said instructions had been issued to all provincial government departments concerned to prioritise matters pertaining to the project.
The chief minister said that he would personally oversee progress on the project to ensure that the plants start supplying electricity to the national grid by 2017. He also invited the Hauneng Shandong group president to visit the construction site in Sahiwal.
