{"id":46688,"date":"2019-01-02T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=46688"},"modified":"2019-01-02T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T10:15:00","slug":"cm-orders-electrification-of-1179-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cm-orders-electrification-of-1179-villages.html","title":{"rendered":"CM orders electrification of 1,179 villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: As per the directions of Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Murad Ali Shah, 1,179 villages in the province are to be given electricity access, according to a news source. He directed the energy minister to approach Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO), Sukkur Electric Power Company (SEPCO), and K-Electric (KE) for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting presided over by the CM, it was revealed that 1,974 out of a total of 3,153 villages had been electrified so far by the aforementioned power utilities at a cost of PKR 3.66 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/k-electric-to-crack-down-against-defaulters-power-theft.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K-Electric to crack down against defaulters, power theft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the electrification of the remaining 1,179 villages, the power companies have a balance of PKR 1.86 billion. Along with instructing Energy Minister Imtiaz Sheikh to provide service to these villages, CM Shah also disclosed future plans for providing electricity to various villages in the Malir and West districts. He directed the energy department to draw up plans for these schemes, so that required funds could be allocated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: As per the directions of Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Murad Ali Shah, 1,179 villages in the province are to be given electricity access, according to a news source. He directed the energy minister to approach Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO), Sukkur Electric Power Company (SEPCO), and K-Electric (KE) for this purpose. At a meeting presided over by the CM, it was revealed that 1,974 out of a total of 3,153 villages had been electrified so far by the aforementioned power utilities at a cost of PKR 3.66 billion. Read: K-Electric to crack down against defaulters, power theft For the electrification of the remaining 1,179 villages, the power companies have a balance of PKR 1.86 billion. Along with instructing Energy Minister Imtiaz Sheikh to provide service to these villages, CM Shah also disclosed future plans for providing electricity to various villages in the Malir and West districts. He directed the energy department to draw up plans for these schemes, so that required funds could be allocated. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":14890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[229,2088],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-electricity","8":"tag-villages"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CM orders electrification of 1,179 villages - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: As per the directions of Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Murad Ali Shah, 1,179 villages in the province are to be given electricity access, according\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cm-orders-electrification-of-1179-villages.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CM orders electrification of 1,179 villages - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: As per the directions of Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Murad Ali Shah, 1,179 villages in the province are to be given electricity access, according\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cm-orders-electrification-of-1179-villages.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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