Pakistan to Import Electricity From India

slamabad: Pakistan is getting on with a preliminary agreement for import of power from India to shun an engraved power shortage catastrophe. At the point when the international court has endorsed India to distract water from the River Neelum & River Jhelum so as to bring & store it in the Kishanganga Dam in Indian occupied Kashmir.
Conferring to various sources, the Ministry of Water and Power had transferred an initial version of a MoU meant as memorandum of understanding to the Law Division for screening, before passing it to give an area for power importation. The former regime had made an advantage to purchase power from India to shun the power catastrophe in Pakistan.

Previous PM Yousaf Raza Gilani had quantified the permission for power importation. The court has allowed India to avert water from the rivers to the Kishanganga Dam, which will upset nine hundred MW Neelum Jhelum hydropower project being made in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)  the sources explicated.

India has presented to transfer about five hundred megawatts of power in the start and this plot could be employed in a year by placing a transmission line, it supplements. A high-ranking government authority exclaimed Pakistan realized that it could buy around two thousand five hundred megawatts of electricity from India to wrestle the severe deficiency.

Although in past, experiences of rental power projects and independent power projects have failed Pakistan in meeting the challenge of power crisis. Now this attempt of electricity import, is additional reliance to neighboring country that of-course will increase the cost per unit as compared if it has been generated and transmitted in Pakistan.