THARPARKAR: Thar coal power project is the best example of good governance, said Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday as he inaugurated a 660 Megawatts power project in Sindh.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, the Pakistan People's Party chairman said Thar's "black gold" will lit the entire Pakistan.
"We feel proud that Murad Ali Shah and I am inaugurating the project whose foundation stone was laid in 1994 by Benazir Bhutto and Abdullah Shah, the then Sindh chief minister and father of Murad Ali Shah.
"We call it good governance. Other people only talk while we have shown how work is done. This is what you call Naya Pakistan and these are what you call mega-projects," said Bilawal Bhutto Zardari taking a dig at PTI.
He said the PPP government's policy and governance is visible. "That would not have become reality without the 18th (constitutional) amendment," he said.
The PPP chairman cited a report of The Economist which called The Thar Coal Power Project as the most successful projects.
"This is the success of poor people of Sindh. This is the acknowledgement of our good governance".
He said for the first time the Thar Coal is being used for National grid which would benefit the country.
He said unfair treatment was being meted out to locals in Thar who deserved to be supplied the electricity of all people.
"That is why Sindh government has decided to supply free of cost electricity to people in Thar. The government will pay the electricity bills of Islam Kot and Thar".
He also pledged to establish a campus of NED University in Thar .
Taking a jibe at opponents, he said "we do not fix our plaques on projects launched by someone else. These are our projects. Everyday chief mintier takes me with him to inaugurate some projects.
Without naming the PTI, he said some people made tall claims of building 200 dams to generate electricity and put an end to load-shedding in Khyber Paktunkhwa.
"Not a single megawatt electricity was added to national grid from Khyber Paktunkhwa," he said.
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