Indian Companies Willing To Produce Electricity in Thar

Karachi: After the approval of the Germany, China and American energy boards to declare coals found in Thar in Pakistan to be most effective and suitable medium for generating electricity, Indian companies have presented their willingness to start their projects here.

The world acknowledged agencies have declared the coal as the best form raw material. According to a report, there exist about 175 Arab ton coal reserves spread in 9,000 hectares kilometers. In order to extract the coal, 12 blocks of 1,000 kilometers have been built for the purpose. Chairman of Sindh Board of Investment Zubair Motiwala in this connection said that a block contains around 2 tons of coal.

Zubair has appealed to the federal government to allocate the tariff of the Thar coal so that after three years grids can be installed for open mouth mining for the generation of electricity.

Development projects in the desert area are underway to provide with water supply, proper transport and airports. 2 Indian companies have presented interest in generating 4,000 megawatt electricity in the area.

Analysts and experts have presented the thought that if the government stresses on utilizing the resources in Thar and the local coal instead of the imported coals then this would create immense job opportunities with cheap production of electricity through the use of high quality coal with decreasing the total expenditure.