ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission has received a demand of Rs1.8 trillion from various ministries and agencies for next year’s development schemes, but the commission was proposing Rs1tr for the public sector development programme (PSDP) of 2017-18, Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said on Monday.
Speaking at a news conference, the minister said the energy projects that the PML-N government launched since coming to power in 2013 were now in advanced stages and would add about 10,000 megawatts to the system between May of this year and 2018.
This would be single largest capacity addition to the power sector in Pakistan’s history.
He said the country was going through 12-18 hours of loadshedding when the current government took over in May 2013. This has now been brought down and electricity was now available for 18 hours, he added. The industry was also being given uninterrupted power supply, he added.
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