Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah.
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Monday that he was not answerable to prime minister or any minister but to the provincial assembly.
He said that the chief minister was not answerable to any person, including to the prime minister except to the provincial assembly. “My answer may not be taken as negative but as a matter of fact that the chief minister is only answerable to the provincial assembly,” he said.
He said while talking to the media just after inaugurating Diagnostic Complex and Dow Institute of Life Sciences at Ojha Campus. He was accompanied by Parliamentary Secretary on Health Qasim Siraj Soomro.
Sindh to take over HESCO, SEPCO if center continues subsidy for next 5 years: Murad Ali Shah
Karachi, January 25, 2021 (PPI-OT): Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that his government was ready to take Hyderabad Electric Supply Company and Sukkur Electric Power Company (SEPCO) subject to the condition that the federal government would continue its power subsidy for next five years. This he said while talking to the media just after inaugurating Diagnostic Complex and Dow Institute of Life Sciences at Ojha Campus. He was accompanied by Parliamentary secretary on Health Qasim Siraj Soomro.
Replying to a question, the chief minister said that the HESCO and SEPCO were power distribution companies running in heavy losses. “I had written a letter to the Prime Minister much earlier and had requested him to hand over both the companies to the Sindh government on the condition to continue the subsidy, whatever the federal government was giving to them,” he said and added
The allegation that the Sindh government deliberately provided weak prosecution to benefit high-profile criminals in the province, including Lyari gang war leader Uzair Jan Baloch, was echoed in the.
Power companies have made lives miserable
Energy minister tells PA Sindh govt willing to take over HESCO, SEPCO
KARACHI:
Provincial Energy Minister Imtiaz Shaikh announced in Sindh Assembly on Thursday that the provincial government is ready to take on power utility companies for their failure to supply electricity in the province.
Addressing the house, Shaikh referred to the hourslong loadshedding in various districts of Sindh and said, “Power companies have made the life of people miserable.” He added that the Sindh government itself is not generating the power, but is involved in mining of coal in Thar.
He was of the view that Sindh government own five wind power projects, but federal government was unwilling to notify the same and finalise the tariff requirement. “In the best interest of people of Sindh, we are willing to take over Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) and Sukkur Electric Supply Company (SEPCO), which have failed badly in supplying power to consu
KARACHI: Provincial Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh on Thursday informed the Sindh Assembly that injustice was being done with the people of Sindh as 18-hour electricity loadshedding was being carried out across the province, adding that the provincial government was ready to take control of power distribution companies Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) and Sukkur Electric Power Company (Sepco) on its own terms and conditions for betterment of the people.
He was responding to a calling-attention notice of Grand Democratic Alliance’s Arif Mustafa Jatoi.
Mr Shaikh said that the provincial government was involved only in coal mining under public-private partnership and had nothing to do with electricity production and its transmission.