STANDING COMMITTEE ON WATER AND POWER PASSED THE “INDUS RIVER SYSTME AUTHORITY (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2017” MOVED BY MS. SURRIYA ASGHAR, MNA WITH PROPOSED AMENDMENT
 

The Standing Committee on Water and Power discussed the “The Indus River System Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2017” in detail and considered the amendments proposed in the draft further to amend the Indus River System Authority Act, 1992(Act No. XXII of 1992). After detailed deliberations on the said Bill, the Committee agreed with the proposed amendment of the Mover for insertion of new section 15(A) (Act XXII of 1992). The Standing Committee on Water and Power met today in M/o Water and Power under the Chairmanship of Mr. Muhammad Arshad Khan Leghari, MNA.

The Committee was briefly apprised about the Daragai Hydropower Projects I&II, located in Malakand Agency. The Committee was informed that there are total 03 hydropower stations in District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Upper Swat Canal having a production of 121 MW. While discussion about the shortfall of electricity the Additional Secretary of the Ministry responded that there are 5000 to 6000 MW gap between demand and supply and expecting that it would be approximately the same in peak season of summer. He said that Government has started the different projects of Hydro, Thermal and Wind which is expected to start its generation after 2 to 3 months. The Committee directed that Ministry should ensure to lessen the shortfall of the electricity in order to give relief to the public especially in holy month of Ramadan.

Earlier, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Federal Minister of Water and Power briefly apprised the Committee about the different projects of electricity which was initiated to overcome the shortfall of the electricity.

MNAs, Lt. Col. (Retd.) Ghulam Rasul Sahi, Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah, Nawab Muhammad Yousuf Talpur, Mr. Junaid Akbar, Mr. Salim Rehman, Syed Waseem Hussain, Syed Kazim Shah and Ms. Surriya Asghar, MNA/Mover of the Bill attended the meeting, besides officials of the Ministry.