‘Nation has to move to green energy and solarisation due to rising temperatures’

Sindh Minister for Energy and Planning & Development Syed Nasir Hussain Shah on Monday inaugurated Pakistan’s first private charging station for electric vehicles in Karachi.

Shah said at the ceremony that the provincial government should provide support and all possible facilities to the country’s business community investing abroad in order to encourage them to invest in their own country. This will promote investment in the country, and further stabilise the economy, he added.

He said the provincial government is promoting public-private partnerships, and providing all possible support and cooperation to investors in various sectors in the province. In view of the increasing rise in atmospheric temperature, he pointed out that the nation would have to move to green energy and solarisation.

He also said that charging stations should be installed in the entire province, and motorbikes should also be brought to this technology by introducing more and more electric motorbikes for government employees and journalists. A solar unit should also be installed in the Karachi Press Club, he added.

Shah said that labour-intensive miners are the backbone of the energy sector. He said that any kind of negligence or carelessness in protecting their lives and health is intolerable. He warned that the leases of companies that do not take safety measures for the health and lives of miners would be cancelled, and no one’s pressure or recommendation in this regard would be entertained.

He said that all the government’s ongoing development projects had been stopped earlier, but on the directives of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the province’s chief minister and his team are trying to speed up and complete all the development projects.

He also said that discussions with the federation are ongoing about the consumers who have not been provided with digital meters despite making payments, so their problems would be resolved as soon as possible.