Punjab Power Development Board delegation meets FCCI SVP.

FAISALABAD -- A five-member delegation of Punjab Power Development Board (PPDB) met Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) Senior Vice President Mian Tanveer Ahmad, here on Saturday.

While talking to the delegation, the FCCI official said Punjab must exploit its hydel potential to meet its growing needs of electricity by installing small generation units at barrages and canals sprawling throughout the province.

He said industrialists as well as business concerns should concentrate on self power-generation in order to reduce their dependence on national grid, as huge transmission losses have been reported during dispatch of electricity from generation units to major load centres in the province.

He appreciated the new schemes conceived by the PPDB for power generation and hoped that the government would give incentives to industrial units along barrages...