ISLAMABAD – Senate Standing Committee on Energy was told on Monday thatNational Engineering Services Pakistan, Limited (NESPAK), since itsinception in 1973, had completed 3,578 development projects at national andInternational levels.
“NESPAK undertakes total 3,944 local and foreign projects, out of whichsome 3,055 development projects have been wrapped up within the countrywhile 523 abroad,” the officials of NESPAK told the committee which methere with Senator Fida Muhammad in the chair. Some 331 national and 35foreign development projects were underway, they added.
Sharing details of the ongoing projects in the country, the officials saidthe company was working on 35 development schemes in the federal capital,79 Punjab, 22 Sindh, 42 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and others.
NESPAK was also carrying out development schemes in other countriesincluding 12 in Qatar, 9 in Saudi Arabia, 8 in Oman and others, they added.
The officials apprised the committee that NESPAK was undertaking maximumprojects of the public sector including Water and Power DevelopmentAuthority, National Transmission and Dispatch Company, National HighwayAuthority, Frontier Works Organization, Civil Aviation Authority, Railwaysand others.
They said the organization had generated some Rs 97.2 billion and spent Rs80.14 billion during the last 45 years in addition to the payment of Rs 4.2billion taxes.
The official told the committee that last year’s revenue generation ofNESPAK was around Rs 8.2 billion.
Senator Numan Wazir Khattak stressed the need for hiring local consultantsinstead of foreigner.
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The Managing Director NESPAK said the company preferred to hire consultantsfrom the country but foreign consultants had to be hired on the request ofthe project’s donor.
Senator Siraj ul Huq underlined the need for evolving a mechanism thatwould ensure timely completion of development projects, besidesblacklisting the companies which caused inordinate delay in execution ofdevelopment schemes.
He said timely completion of development projects helped avoid extra burdenon national exchequer and public inconvenience.
Senator Nauman Wazir Khattak, who was heading a sub-committee on energyformed recently to investigate “high tariff, capacity charges, heat ratesand calculation of pay back periods of Independent Power Producers (IPPs),submitted its detailed report over the matter.
The committee meeting was also attended by Senators Pervaiz Khattak,Dilawar Khan, Maulvi Faiz Muhammad, Minister for Power and Petroleum OmarAyub and officials of NESPAK and the ministry.
