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SSRL’s new office inaugurated
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February 9, 2021
KARACHI: The Thar Coal Block-1 project, which is an important part of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), is making rapid progress despite all odds, a top official said on Monday.
At the office relocation ceremony of Sino Sindh Resources Private Limited (SSRL), Li Jigen, chief operating officer of SSRL, a subsidiary of Shanghai Electric, said that despite the Covid-19 pandemic and other obstacles, the mega project in Thar has picked up pace in recent times.
Tariq Shah, Sindh Energy Secretary, Meng Donghai, CEO of Thar Coal Block-1 Power Generation Co and Li Jigen, inaugurated SSRL’s new office at The Harbour Front. Shah lauded the progress made in the Thar Block-1 project, which comprises a 7.8-million-tonne-per-annum (Mtpa) open-pit coal mine and installation of a 1.3GW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant. Almost 40 percent of the work related to coal mining has been completed, while construction work
In this file photo, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah addresses a press conference in Karachi. DawnNewsTV/File
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday said that Thar Coal Block-I project comprises a 7.8-million-tonne-per-annum (Mtpa) open-pit coal mine and installation of a 1.3 GW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant.
“The coal mining work has been completed by 40 per cent and I will visit the project by the end of this month,” CM Shah said while talking to a delegation of Thar Coal Block-I Power Generation Co led by its CEO Meng Donghai.
The delegation members include Sino-Sindh Resources Ltd (SSRL) CEO Li Jigen, Deputy CEO Huang Jinting and Deputy CEO Chaudhary Qayyum. The meeting was attended among others by Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Shaikh, Principal Secretary Sajid Jamal Abro and Sindh Energy Secretary Tariq Shah.