Thar coal To Generate Over 3500 Megawatts Power
October 2nd, 2009
Prime Minister of Pakistan has expressed confidence that Thar Coal reserves will be an important source for resolving energy crisis. “Thar Coal has reserves of over 185 billion tons; besides electricity. It will also be a source of diesel and help reduce POL import bill”, the Prime Minister said in a policy statement on energy crisis in the Senate on Friday.
This important natural resource has been completely ignored during the last 62 years and the nation was deprived of an opportunity to develop it, he said. He said that the present government has constituted Thar Energy Development Board (TEDB) for one-window operation for investors, with Chief Minister of Sindh as its chairman.
