Thar coal mining, power and community projects in Thar would ensure economic uplift and poverty alleviation from the province.
Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC), a joint venture between Government of Sindh and Engro Power-gen Ltd, is all set to exploit huge Thar coal reserves and start generating power to supply to the national grid from early next year.
SECMC is just 20 meters away from the first coal steam to supply coal to 660MWs of mine mouth power plant.
70 percent work on both the mining and power projects have been completed ahead of schedule and first electron from Thar Coal Block II will start generating power by end of this year.
“The power supply from Thar Coal block II will be the cheapest electricity in Pakistan.
The different schemes in education, health, safe drinking water, women empowerment, skill development, have been initiated with the total cost of Rs. 4.5 billion.