Govt completed Nandipur power project to avoid fine by contractor: Abid Sher Says govt to honour commitment of ending loadshedding by 2018 From Our Correspondent MULTAN: State Minister for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali has said that a sum of Rs 131 billion has been spent on the Nandipur power project. Addressing a press conference at the Multan Electric Power Company Headquarters here on Tuesday, he said that the government had decided to continue the project to avoid US$ 160 million fine by the contractor. He said that the Nandipur project had started generating electricity. He said that work on Diamer-Bhasha Dam would be initiated soon. He said that the PML-N government would honour the commitment of ending loadshedding from the country by 2018. The state minister said that the countrywide up-gradation of transmission lines would be completed till 2017 to end loadshedding in 2018. He said that work on the past dead projects was in progress and billions of rupees were being spent on them. He said that the masses had blind faith on the PML-N government as it had reduced the loadshedding from 18 hours to six hours in the cities and to eight hours in the rural areas. He said that 8,000 to 10,000 megawatt would be added to the system in 2017/18. The minister ordered registration of criminal cases against a Dera Ghazi Khan-based lawyer on continuous default. He said that electricity would be supplied to those, who were paying their bills. He said that Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan was a failed politician. He said that Imran Khan had no concern with the people of Pakistan and he was wasting precious time of the nation.
