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The Sukkur Thermal Power Plant is situated on the right bank of the River Indus and at the eastern corner of Sukkur city. Tracing back the chain of events that led to the installation of Sukkur Thermal Power Project, in 1951 the Sindh Government began to consider a central generating station of 15,000 KW in Sukkur to cater to energy needs within a radius of seventy miles. Due to paucity of funds, it was left to the mercy of West Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (WPIDC). WPIDC proposed the setting up of a 30 MW station, while works relating to transmission and distribution were to be carried out by the West Pakistan Electricity Department. Later, in 1959, with the creation of the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), the whole project was handed over to it.

(Documented on June 3, 2013)

[Source: Sukkur: Nostalgia of things past by Momin Bullo | Coordinates: EFT]

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