Lahore (Staff Reporter)
Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi met with a German company delegation in
which the delegation expressed their interest to install nature friendly waste to energy power plant
projects in Punjab. CM directed to early settle the matters to install waste to energy power plant
projects and added that Punjab will get cheap electricity from the green field power plant and for
implementation on the said project a formal MOU will be signed with the German company. CM
directed the concerned officials to give a final shape to the salient features of the project at the earliest
adding that all the concerned departments should expeditiously settle their affairs for signing the MOU.
He assured that transparent work will be done with regard to this project at every level. He emphasised
that installation of environment friendly power plant is the need of time in the perspective of climate
change and will enable to cope up with smog and environment pollution. He revealed that investment
amounting to billions of rupees will be done in Punjab and will create employment opportunities. He
highlighted that it would also facilitate to get rid of the problem to discard waste and asserted that no
delay should be made in doing paper work of the project. The delegation while talking with the CM
Pervaiz Elahi intended to install a plant to produce electricity from a garbage in Lahore and revealed to
make investment of billions of rupees in the plant installation project which will generate employment
opportunities for 5 thousand people. The delegation comprised German company office-bearer Mr.
Carsten and included others. Member Punjab Assembly Sajid Khan Bhatti, Tanvir Shah, Muhammad
Jabbar, Mushtaq Gondal, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Hasan, Secretary Local Government, Secretary
Energy, Additional Secretary Industries, Special Secretaries CM Office were also present on the occasion.
The German company has installed green field power plants in six different countries of the world. Meanwhile
Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi in his message on the National Newspaper Readership Day
said that the newspapers were an important part of our lives, are still an essential part and will remain
so. Newspapers are the most authentic source to derive information adding that with the newspaper
reading the reader not only acquaints himself with the current affairs but also gets easy and inexpensive
access to obtain information. Despite the growth of electronic and digital media, newspapers are still
the best source for the readers to derive information. He said that awareness about various economic
and social issues is obtained by reading newspapers. Though the newspaper reading habit has lessened
in the digital world but it cannot be eliminated under any circumstance. The newspaper reading enables
us to hold a command on the language and also expands the collection of words. This viewpoint holds
truth to a greater extent that unauthentic information and news are disseminated on the digital media
and there is absence of any means for their verification which gives birth to unrest and chaos in the
society. On the other hand the newspapers even today hold the status of a responsible, impartial and an
authentic journalism and for this reason the newspaper reading habit persists even to date and
inshaAllah will continue in times to come as well.
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