Briefing on Thar coal and water plants

Secretary Sindh Coal Authority Aijaz Ali Khan has said that the government has made hectic efforts to increase electricity generation capacity of the country. The first phase of Thar coal project will be launched in next month under the directives of the famous scientist Dr Samar Mubarakmand.
It may be recalled that Dr Samar Mubarakmand has planned gasification project to generate electricity from Thar coal reservoirs in the first phase of the project. He was giving a briefing to the Government National Management 94th course, officers of different cadres and grades in Mithi district Tharparkar.
He further said that this gasification project will help generate 10,000 megawatt electricity from Thar coal project till 2020. He further said that Pak Oasis Industries had been taken revolutionary steps to provide quality and cheap purified drinking water. He added that Thar coal authority had also given a task to Pak Oasis Industries to install water filter plants in Thar desert for Thari people.
Syed Ummar Abbas Jilani, managing director Pak Oasis Industries said his company has 58 plants of these, 29 are functioning in district Tharparkar and, the rest in district Umerkot. He further said that water filter plants are functioning at Mithi, Islmakot, Kantiyo, Chelhar, Chachro, Umerkot and other far-flung areas of desert on a daily basis. He further said that Thar Coal Authority and Sindh government are also giving tasks to Pak Oasis Industries for installation of further plants of water in the desert areas of Sindh.
He further said that 58 plants in Umerkot and Tharparkar, 25 plants in Badin and Thatta are functioning while work on other projects in Benazirabad district and other districts of the province is in progress.
He further said that 9.26 million gallon purified water per day was being provided to the people of those areas where plants have been installed, he added.
On this occasion, Director General Thar Coal Authority Abdul Majid Pathan said that different companies were implanting their projects to generate electricity in Thar Coal Project and added that till 2016 sufficient quantity of electricity would be produced from this project.
He said there was very difficult to construct roads and brining the heavy machinery till this project place, but companies have completed this task successfully. He said water problem has mostly been resolved in Thar with the co-operation of Pak Oasis Industries. Later, officers of 94th National Management Course visited various water filter plants and ongoing work on Thar Coal Project.