Islamabad: Minister for water and power Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani will lay foundation stone of Diamar Bhasha dam next month which will produce 4500 megawatt electricity.
Raja Pervez Ashraf said this while speaking in Met the Press program in National Press Club on Monday.
He said the investors had left the country and power generation target could not be achieved due to deteriorating law and order situation.
He said, at the moment, there is shortage of 3500 to 4000 megawatts in the country. The government is trying to overcome the issue of the power crisis through increase production of Terbela and Kohala projects, he added.
To a question, Raja Pervez Ashraf said that the country would get 700 to 800 megawatt power through the completion of the projects of rental power. He said that the ministry fined those power companies, which did not implement the agreements.
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