Chitral Times Report
Peshawar: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has in principle agreed to the proposal for utilization of lands owned by environment and wildlife department for promotional activities of tourism and power generation projects.
He was chairing a combined meeting of wildlife, forest and environmental departments at Chief Minister House Peshawar. Meeting among others was attended by Chief Secretary, Muhammad Azam Khan, Chief Strategic Support Unit, Sahibzada Saeed, Commissioner Hazara, Akbar Khan and concerned officials.
According approval to the proposal, KP Chief Minister stressed that these projects in both the sectors should be environment friendly. He agreed to the recommendations that share of ten percent from profit should be given to environment department as a compensation.
Briefing the meeting, Secretary Energy, Engr. Muhammad Naeem Khan told that additional 400 kanals land of forest department had been needed for under construction 840 MW Shukki Kinari project at Manshera.
Similarly, private land had been required for construction of 84 MW hydel power house at Mataltan, the Secretary said, adding NOC and permission of provincial government is necessary for completing these projects on time. Secretary assure that these requirements would fulfilled to facilitate the completion of these projects and making them environmental friendly.
Chief Minister stressed for coordinated efforts working out a comprehensive flawless strategy as per the guidelines of the provincial government. He directed to send him a summary for approval. He was optimistic that the completion of these projects would lead to overcome load-shedding. This province has a number of sites for the hydropower generation and that could fulfill the entire need of the country. Therefore the federal government should play its role to tap all the perennial water resources of the province to generate maximum electricity to overcome all the electricity needs of the people of country, he added.
