By Masood Sattar Khan
(Pakistan News & Features Services)
(Pakistan News & Features Services)
The onslaught of life threatening coronavirus, that claimed thousands of life around the world beside badly hurting socio-economic activities, but projects particularly in energy sector under taken under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have business as usual.
For instance, the Port Qasim Power plant under COEC has guaranteed a safe production and has cumulatively generated more than 20 billion KWh of electricity, meeting power demands of four million household in Pakistan.
The 1,320 megawatt Pakistan Port Qasim Power Project comprises two 660 megawatt super critical coal power plants, one of which was inaugurated in December 2016 as part of the CPEC.
The project is spread over 204 acres at Port Qasim, 37 kilometers east of Karachi.
Another mega energy project that continued their pace as per schedule was construction of Dasu Hydropower Project.
This project is undertaken by the China Gezhouba Group Corporation, having achieved the construction progress in diversion of tunnel.
The Hydroelectric power plant is located in KPK with installed capacity of 4320 MW. Its construction work got underway in 2017.
It and eye opener projects that were supposed to be initiated by PPP and PMLN but greed to fill the self benefits socio-economic projects were ignored and economic projects were encouraged. As a result families were benefited and common citizen suffering.
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