100MW solar power project being set up in Layyah
Special Assistant to CM on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has said the Punjab government is setting up a 100MW Solar Power Project in Layyah at a total cost of $57 million which will add 200 million units of cheap electricity to the national grid.
“The government will purchase electricity at a cost of only 3.7 cents as compared to 14.1 cents by the former government. It is sanguine that confidence of foreign investors has been restored due to transparent and investor-friendly policies of the government.”
She said this while addressing a joint press conference flanked by Provincial Minister for Energy Dr Akhtar Malik after the signing ceremony of Land Lease Agreement for 100MW Solar Power Project at EFU House, Jail Road here on Tuesday.
Dr Firdous said the government had entered into agreements with companies at the cheapest rates to supply electricity to industrial and domestic users.
Unlike in the past, the PTI government was moving towards sustainable sources of cheap electricity and Chief Minister Usman Buzdar was determined for composite development of the province, she added. She said the Punjab government strongly condemned the terrorist activity in Mach area of Balochistan in which 11 coal miners were killed and the vandalism at a temple in KP.
Responding to a question, Dr Firdous said that hopelessness and helplessness was prevailing in the camp of PDM.
She said the Calibri Queen was making hue and cry in the desert of Bahawalpur but there was no one to rescue her. She alleged that Maulana Fazal ur Rehman forced Madrassa students to take part in Bahawalpur rally.
PPP had betrayed PML-N whereas Maulana Sherani and Hafiz Hussain Ahmed had exposed Maulana Fazl ur Rehman, she added.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Akhtar Malik said that 100MW Solar Power Project in Layyah was the cheapest project in history of the country as the electricity cost of the project was Rs5.50 per unit as compared to Rs25 per unit of Quaid-e-Azam Solar project by the former government.
He said Layyah Solar Power Project would prove to be a game changer as it would create 50,000 job opportunities for the people of southern Punjab.