{"id":35917,"date":"2017-12-09T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T08:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35917"},"modified":"2017-12-09T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T08:20:45","slug":"pm-to-lay-foundation-stone-of-lng-power-plant-in-jhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35917","title":{"rendered":"PM to lay foundation stone of LNG power plant in Jhang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>CM Punjab Shehbaz Sharif will also attend the event <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JHANG Dec 09 (TNS):<\/strong> Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is expected to lay down the foundation stone of a power plant in Jhang today.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,263 Megawatt LNG power plant will be constructed near the Trimmu Barrage. The project, which is estimated to cost USD800 million, is being funded by China and Punjab government.<\/p>\n<p>The project is slated to be completed in 26 months. It will start power generation of 810 MW within 14 months and 1,263 MW once it is completed.<\/p>\n<p>CM Punjab Shehbaz Sharif will also attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>On September 29, an agreement was signed with a Chinese company to set up a 1263 MW LNG-fueled power plant in Jhang.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowed an end to the load shedding issue with concrete measures taken by the PML-N government.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister pointed out that all power projects have been completed speedily with utmost transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Taking aim at his opponents, Shehbaz said, \u201cIf they cannot bring themselves to mention the names, they should at least appreciate the [development] projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister said the first phase of power plants at Bhikhi and Haveli Bahadur Shah is already functional.<\/p>\n<p>Sahiwal Power Plant and Solar Park Bahawalpur are being completed under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CM Punjab Shehbaz Sharif will also attend the event JHANG Dec 09 (TNS): Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is expected to lay down the foundation stone of a power plant in Jhang today. The 1,263 Megawatt LNG power plant will be constructed near the Trimmu Barrage. The project, which is estimated to cost USD800 million, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[823,589],"class_list":["post-35917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-jhang","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35920,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35917\/revisions\/35920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}