Islamabad, September 25, 2022 (PPI-OT):Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi met with a German company delegation in which the delegation expressed their interest to install nature friendly waste to energy power plant projects in Punjab. CM directed to early settle the matters to install waste to energy power plant projects and added that Punjab will get cheap electricity from the green field power plant and for implementation on the said project a formal MOU will be signed with the German company.
CM directed the concerned officials to give a final shape to the salient features of the project at the earliest adding that all the concerned departments should expeditiously settle their affairs for signing the MOU. He assured that transparent work will be done with regard to this project at every level. He emphasised that installation of environment friendly power plant is the need of time in the perspective of climate change and will enable to cope up with smog and environment pollution.
He revealed that investment amounting to billions of rupees will be done in Punjab and will create employment opportunities. He highlighted that it would also facilitate to get rid of the problem to discard waste and asserted that no delay should be made in doing paper work of the project. The delegation while talking with the CM Parvez Elahi intended to install a plant to produce electricity from a garbage in Lahore and revealed to make investment of billions of rupees in the plant installation project which will generate employment opportunities for 5 thousand people.
The delegation comprised German company office-bearer Mr. Carsten and included others. Member Punjab Assembly Sajid Khan Bhatti, Tanvir Shah, Muhammad Jabbar, Mushtaq Gondal, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Hasan, Secretary Local Government, Secretary Energy, Additional Secretary Industries, Special Secretaries CM Office were also present on the occasion. The German company has installed green field power plants in six different countries of the world.
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