Monday, April 23, 2012
LAHORE
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the judicial commission, set up by the federal government, to investigate the crash of the Bhoja Air plane is a fraud.
In a statement on Sunday, he said the judicial commission had been set up without consultation of the chief justice and as such it had no legal standing. He said there was no serving officer in the commission. He said the federal government was trying to hoodwink the people.
Shahbaz Sharif has said that the energy crisis is the result of plundering of the corrupt rulers. He said the steps to overcome electricity shortage should be taken on an emergent basis but the non-seriousness of the rulers was aggravating the situation. He said non-implementation of the decision of equal loadshedding throughout the country, made in the energy conference, was lamentable, warning that injustice being meted out to Punjab regarding loadshedding would not be tolerated.
He was presiding over a meeting of the Energy Implementation Committee on Sunday. The meeting reviewed the implementation of the decisions of energy conference. The chief minister said equal loadshedding throughout the country and other decisions of the energy conference should be completely implemented. He disclosed that a joint meeting of chambers of commerce & industries, trade and agriculture had been convened on Tuesday and traders, industrialists and elected representatives of the districts affected by loadshedding would also attend the meeting. He said the joint meeting would discuss the ways to resolve the crisis.
Shahbaz said the energy crises had not only caused an irreparable loss to the country’s economy but also made the life of the masses miserable. He said had an appropriate strategy been evolved for overcoming the energy crises, the country would not have plunged into darkness. He said that due to long outages, industries had halted in Punjab and hundreds of thousands of labourers had become jobless and the people were protesting against it.
The CM said there was a need of moving forward swiftly for overcoming the crisis, adding that besides short term steps, there was also need of long term planning for the purpose. He said Punjab, being a big province, also contributed an overwhelming share to the GDP and added that if the economy of the province was affected due to unequal loadshedding, it was tantamount to causing a loss to the country’s economy. Therefore, the injustice regarding electricity loadshedding, being meted out to Punjab, should be stopped immediately, he stressed.
He said the outstanding electricity dues against Punjab would be paid as per promise within one and a half months.
Shahbaz Sharif said there was a need of paying attention to the projects of generating energy from cheap sources instead of costly ones. He said the projects of generating energy through coal, hydel, solar, bagasse and other sources should be executed speedily. He said the Punjab government was also working on the projects of generating energy through alternative sources. He said a policy had also been evolved in consultation with sugar mills owners for generating energy through bagasse.
The chief minister directed the Energy secretary to prepare a joint presentation regarding mines and energy within three days and the programme of provision of subsidy on solar tube-wells should also be implemented speedily for facilitating farmers.
Earlier, Secretary Energy Jehanzeb Khan informed about the pace of implementation on the decisions of energy conference.
Members National Assembly Khurram Dastagir Khan, Pervaiz Malik, vice-chairman Punjab Investment Board, secretary Energy, vice-president Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry and other officers concerned attended the meeting.
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