Summary A committee headed by secretary local govt has also been constituted to prepare the policy report.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Sindh Minister for Information and Local Bodies Syed Nasir Hussain Shah and Minister for Energy Imtiaz Ahmed Sheikh on Friday said that the provincial government was working on a project to generate electricity from waste.
A meeting was held under the joint chairmanship of Sindh Local Government Minister Nasir Hussain Shah and Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Sheikh to make the waste power project in Karachi viable.
The meeting was given detailed briefing that 8000 tons of garbage is generated daily in Karachi which can generate up to 200 MW of electricity.
Nasir Hussain Shah and Imtiaz Ahmed Sheikh said that Karachi s waste could be disposed of in an environmental friendly manner and electricity could also be generated from it.
They said that pace of work on the project of power generation from waste would be accelerated and final policy report would be submitted to the Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah.
A committee headed by the secretary local government has also been constituted to prepare the policy report.
