Federal govt spending over Rs5b on improvement of electricity system in KP

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PESHAWAR Jan 17 (TNS):  Federal government is spending over five billion rupees on the improvement of electricity system in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A spokesman of PESCO told that the government has initiated work on one hundred and fifty-one electricity projects in the province out of which fifty-five have been completed.

These projects include laying of new transmission lines, repair of transformers and up-gradation of different grid stations.

Similarly, work on the construction of two hundred and twenty KV grid stations in Charsadda, Mansehra and Dera Ismail Khan is also in progress.