Balochistan Updates

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300 MW solar power plant to be constructed in Quetta

Balochistan Government is taking keen interest in overcoming the energy crisis in the province in collaboration with the federal government.

An official of Balochistan government told our correspondent on Sunday under a special project, a 300 MWs solar power plant would be constructed in Kuchlak area of Quetta district.

Similarly the power supply to different universities of Balochistan would be converted into solar energy system.

He said electricity would be supplied to all the state buildings and water supply schemes through solar energy system in the province

 

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Speedy execution was underway on the Kachhi Canal project and upon its completion in August this year it will provide irrigation water to an area of 72,000 acres in Balochistan’s Dera Bugti district. “A total of 9, 917 acres of land acquisition will be completed by May 2017 for the 2, 160MW Dasu hydro power project,” the chairman said, adding ground breaking of main works on $4,300 million Dasu project will be performed in June 2017.

 

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Hospital in Kohlu, Balochistan

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Police Training Centre U/C

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GDA approves construction of 300 MW power plant in Gwadar

http://dailytimes.com.pk/pakistan/23...lant-in-gwadar

ISLAMABAD: The 16th meeting of the governing body of Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) was held in Quetta on Thursday with Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri in the chair.

The meeting approved the construction of a 300 MW power plant in Gwadar. During the meeting, financial and administrative matters of the governing body were also discussed.

 

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GDA approves construction of 300 MW power plant in Gwadar

http://dailytimes.com.pk/pakistan/23...lant-in-gwadar

ISLAMABAD: The 16th meeting of the governing body of Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) was held in Quetta on Thursday with Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri in the chair.

The meeting approved the construction of a 300 MW power plant in Gwadar. During the meeting, financial and administrative matters of the governing body were also discussed.

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GE Equips new 1,320 MW Power Plant in Balochistan


GE is supplying Northwest Electric Power Design Institute Co. Ltd. (NWEPDI) and Tianjin Electric Power Construction Company (TEPC) with two units each of supercritical steam turbines, boilers and generators for the China Power Hub Generation Company (Pvt.) Limited (CPHGC) 1,320 megawatt (MW) Power Plant in District Hub, Balochistan, Pakistan.

CPHGC is a joint venture of China Power International Holdings Limited (CPIH) with Pakistan’s HUB Power Company (HUBCO).

The power plant’s construction has started and a ground breaking ceremony is expected on Tuesday, March 21. The facility is expected to enter commercial operations in 2019.

The project will support the Government of Pakistan’s goals under Vision 2025 to increase access to electricity from 67 percent to over 90 percent of the population and spur faster socio-economic development by helping to meet a part of the current energy deficit. It will also help Pakistan diversify its energy mix and reduce dependence on expensive imported fuels such as oil and diesel, allowing the use of cheaper supplies of coal.


GE has been a long-term partner in Pakistan’s progress for more than 50 years, creating over 400 employment opportunities in the country. Today, GE-built technologies can generate up to 25% of Pakistan’s electricity, while GE and its joint venture partners power more than 60% of the aircraft operated by Pakistani commercial carriers and GE Healthcare devices are installed in more than 70% of large hospitals across the country.

 

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DG Cement Factory Under Construction in Hub.

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70 branches of various banks to be established in Balochistan

http://nation.com.pk/business/22-Mar...in-balochistan

QUETTA - State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Ashraf Mahmood Wathra has directed the banks, operational in Balochistan, to promote banking credit services and grant loans for encouraging business activities in the province.

The SBP governor said, “All banks have decided to establish 70 new branches in far-flung districts of Balochistan including Quetta and this initiative will boost job opportunities for the people.” He also revealed that very less number of banks will be set up in Quetta while priority will be extended to far-reaching areas of the province.

While talking about countrywide financial campaign, the SBP governor said that a financial campaign will soon be launched whose debut ceremony will be initiated from Balochistan provincial capital Quetta.

Highlighting the leading purposes of forthcoming financial campaign, Wathra said the campaign would play a vital role in ensuring women empowerment in the society. Under the campaign, loans will be granted to skilled women for business purpose, he added.

 

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Hub power plant to benefit four million families

http://nation.com.pk/national/26-Mar...llion-families

Chairman of a Chinese power enterprise, Wang Binghua has said that the new Hub coal-fire power plant being constructed under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would benefit four million families including the local people after its completion in 2019.

The power plant project, which is one of the “priority projects” under CPEC, is being constructed and invested in by the China Power International Holding Ltd, a subsidiary of China’s State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC), and Pakistan’s Hub Power Company Ltd, with a total cost of some $2 billion.

In an interview, Wang said that after the fulfillment of the project, local people will enjoy cheaper electricity and about four million Pakistani families will benefit from the power plant, adding that the coal-fire power plant also adds variety to Pakistan’s energy consumption system so as to help the country ensure its energy security.

“Any country cannot only rely on one sort of energy. Coal-fire power plants, gas filed power plants, solar farms, wind energy, bio-energy or other new energies should all be utilized in order to guarantee its energy security. Therefore, it is necessary for Pakistan to build the coal fire power plant,” Wang said.

“As to the Hub project, our company attached a great number of importances to five issues that are, the plant’s safety, operation reliability, environment friendly standard, economy and adjustability. And I’m confident to say that we are providing an excellent and responsible service to Pakistan since all of the equipments to be used in the project are of top class globally,” said the Chinese entrepreneur.

“We are adopting a super clean’ emission technology which could make the emissions at the plant the same as a gas filed power plant. And with the Hub project, we also plan to build a cement factory nearby so as to utilize all wasted dust produced by the power plant,” he added.

“We come to Pakistan not for the installation of our equipment and to gain profits. We pay more importance to better improving the development of local high-end manufacturing industries so as to make the development sustainable. We also try to group more and more local communities into our project to dispel their worries.”

“We plan to enroll a number of Pakistani graduates and to provide training to them to make them skilled. These local employees will be an important human resource for the country.” Wang said.

According to Wang, the Hub coal fire power plant is expected to be fully operational in August 2019 and it will generate about 9 billion kwh of electricity to the Pakistani national grid annually. It will also create about 10,000 jobs for local people during its construction.

 

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Construction of GEFZ and it's embankments. Gwadar.

 

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.Ongoing Construction of Gwadar Free Trade Zone, Balochistan,


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Quetta

 

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Dar discusses with WB solar energy plan for Balochistan


WASHINGTON: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said that he has discussed a proposal with the World Bank to illuminate entire Balochistan province with solar energy and the bank’s response was positive.

Speaking at the Pakistan Embassy’s economic forum on Monday night, the minister also acknowledged that the Chinese companies investing in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would get huge tax breaks but claimed that “this calculated decision” would not hurt the country’s economy.

“I discussed (the proposal) to illuminate entire Balochistan with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and his response had been positive,” said Mr Dar, who attended the World Bank Group’s spring meetings in Washington this week.

“I invited him to visit the province and he agreed to do so. I also said that we would like him to inaugurate the first project when it was ready,” he said. “I think things will go positively.”

Mr Dar told the forum’s mostly Pakistani-American audience that the PML-N government was close to ‘turning Gwadar into Dubai’ when the country faced the coup in 1999 which derailed the entire process.

“We wanted to build a parallel Middle East, from Karachi to Gwadar, but the coup prevented us from doing so,” he said.

The minister agreed with a Baloch member of the audience that had Baloch been given their rights, the province would have attained its potentials and there might not have been the current insurgency.

The government, he said, was working on various proposals for economic integration of Balochistan with the rest of the country and hoped the CPEC would bring in a new opening for the province.