Power Supply To Off-grid Areas Through Micro Hydro Projects, Big Achievement: CM Aide

PESHAWAR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 3rd Jun, 2021 ) :Special Assistant to the Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Energy and Power, Taj Muhammad Tarand Thursday said that the provincial government has achieved a big success by materializing the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan of 350 small dams in the province under Micro Hydro Power Projects.

Presiding over a meeting of PEDO here wherein Focal Person for Energy, MPA Mian Sharafat Ali, CEO PEDO Engineer Naeem Khan, Project Director Colonel � Shahid Khan, Project Director Khurram Durrani and officers concerned were also present, Tarand said providing electricity to the areas with no such facility, was among the topmost priorities of the government.

He said providing electricity to the off-grid areas through these micro hydro projects was the flagship project of the Energy Department.

Briefing the meeting, CEO PEDO, Engineer Naeem Khan said 309 out of 356 micro hydro power projects have been completed during the first phase while some would be completed by the month of June.

The meeting was further told that the land has been acquired for eight sites to install mini solar grids at the bazaars of newly merged districts.

Under this project, the meeting was further told that three mini solar grids would be established at Kurram, Orakzai and Tank would be completed by July 2021.

The meeting was told that 8000 schools, 400 mosques and 187 BHUs have been converted to solar energy in the province while speedy work on other projects of the same nature was underway. The CM House and Secretariat have already been put on solar energy that would help save millions of rupees annually for the province.

Taj Muhammad Tarand said all the projects of Energy Department should be completed within stipulated timeframe so that these projects on completion could help in strengthening the economic position of the province.