Upper, lower Chitral to get power from Golen Gol

CHITRAL: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Power on Friday directed the departments concerned to resolve all impediments for ensuring distribution of electricity to both lower and upper Chitral before the inauguration of Golen Gol power house.

The committee issued these directives in a meeting held here at WAPDA Colony in Koghuzi with MNA from Chitral Shahzada Iftikharuddin in the chair.

MNAs Sher Akber and Junaid along with heads of the Water and Power Development Authority (WPDA), Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization (PEDO) and project director of the 108MW Golen Gol Hydropower Project attended the meeting.

The meeting decided that PESCO of WAPDA and PEDO of KP government would enter into an agreement to restore and remove any faults in the transmission lines inside Chitral before the inauguration of the Golen Gol project on Jan 10.

Both lower and upper Chitral would be provided electricity from Golen Gol in accordance with their current need, it said.

The meeting also resolved that Chitral would be given 30 megawatts from the Golen Gol powerhouse as promised by the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.