{"id":59681,"date":"2020-01-12T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=59681"},"modified":"2020-01-10T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:12:08","slug":"funds-allocated-supply-electricity-villages-around-chitral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/funds-allocated-supply-electricity-villages-around-chitral.html","title":{"rendered":"Funds allocated to supply electricity to villages around Chitral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: During Thursday\u2019s National Assembly (NA) session, Federal Minister for Energy Omar Ayub revealed that the government has allocated PKR 300 million for the upgradation of a 132-kilowatt grid station and for the electrification of villages in Chitral, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-cm-seeks-progress-report-chitrals-power-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KP CM seeks progress report on Chitral&#8217;s power projects<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He revealed this information in response to a Call to Attention notice regarding delays in laying down of electricity transmission lines in Union Councils (UCs) Broze and Ayon, and the villages of Arsun, Kesu, Arndu, and Ashreit, despite the release of funds. He added that the PKR 150 million will be spent on upgradation of the grid station, and the remaining PKR 150 million of electrification of the villages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/france-provides-soft-loan-chitral-dargai-hydropower-projects-restoration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">France provides soft loan for Chitral, Dargai hydropower projects\u2019 restoration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The minister assured that the finance ministry would soon release these funds. He informed the session that the power station required an upgrade as its existing infrastructure had become obsolete. He added that they were also considering a plan to provide hydel electricity to Chitral and Gilgit from Tajikistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/construction-chakdara-chitral-expressway-expected-soon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Construction of Chakdara-Chitral Expressway expected soon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ayub also told the house that National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) would reveal its new tariff for reducing the electricity rates for the community tubewells supplying drinking water to Islamabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: During Thursday\u2019s National Assembly (NA) session, Federal Minister for Energy Omar Ayub revealed that the government has allocated PKR 300 million for the upgradation of a 132-kilowatt grid station and for the electrification of villages in Chitral, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0KP CM seeks progress report on Chitral&#8217;s power projects He revealed this information in response to a Call to Attention notice regarding delays in laying down of electricity transmission lines in Union Councils (UCs) Broze and Ayon, and the villages of Arsun, Kesu, Arndu, and Ashreit, despite the release of funds. He added that the PKR 150 million will be spent on upgradation of the grid station, and the remaining PKR 150 million of electrification of the villages. Read:\u00a0France provides soft loan for Chitral, Dargai hydropower projects\u2019 restoration The minister assured that the finance ministry would soon release these funds. He informed the session that the power station required an upgrade as its existing infrastructure had become obsolete. He added that they were also considering a plan to provide hydel electricity to Chitral and Gilgit from Tajikistan. Read:\u00a0Construction of Chakdara-Chitral Expressway expected soon Ayub also told the house that National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) would reveal its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":10787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14938],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-funds-allocated-to-supply-electricity-to-villages-around-chitral"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Funds allocated to supply electricity to villages around Chitral - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: During Thursday\u2019s National Assembly (NA) session, Federal Minister for Energy Omar Ayub revealed that the government has allocated PKR 300\" \/>\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\/funds-allocated-supply-electricity-villages-around-chitral.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Funds allocated to supply electricity to villages around Chitral - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: During Thursday\u2019s National Assembly (NA) session, Federal Minister for Energy Omar Ayub revealed that the government has allocated PKR 300\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/funds-allocated-supply-electricity-villages-around-chitral.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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