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MITHI, April 3: A team of foreign coal fields’ experts accompanied by officials of Sindh Carbon Energy Ltd and Sindh Coal Authority visited the sites of coal deposits in Thar coal fields on Wednesday, with an aim to explore the possibilities of preparing a feasibility report on mining and establishing a power plant.
The six-member team of experts led by Prof Dr Larry Thomas belonging to UK-based Oracle Coal Fields Public Ltd and Dr Laddy Thames of Dargo Associates Limited arrived at the company’s camp near Singario village in block-6 of Thar coal area with Sindh Carbon Energy Ltd and Sindh Coal Authority officials.
The experts who analysed the coal samples visited the sites where drilling and inspection of drilled holes was going on. Shahrukh Khan, chief executive and Shafique Rehman, director of Sindh Coal Energy Ltd Dawn that their company was working in collaboration with Oracle Coal Fields Public Ltd Company in block-6 consisting about 66 square kilometres.
“We signed a memorandum of understanding with SCA on Nov 3, 2007, for drilling seven holes, of which five have been completed and feasibility report will be prepared later.“Final MoU will be signed with the government for coal mining based on open pit, modus operandi, besides coal fired power plant of 300 megawatt in the beginning that will later be turned into 1,000 megawatt,” said foreign experts.
They said that they were quite hopeful that their company would succeed in establishing a power plant in Thar in near future that could help the country resolve the ongoing power crisis.
KOLHIS APPEAL: The Kolhis of taluka Nagarparkar have urged the Sindh Police IG and the Tharparkar DPO to take notice of what they called excesses of policemen posted at check-post Adhigam in their area.
They claimed that the policemen posted there were fleecing and harassing the poor members of the Kolhis community.
Talking to Dawn in Nagarparkar on Thursday a young goatherd, Hero Kolhi, claimed that he was severely thrashed by a police constable when he refused him when he asked for milk of his goat.
Hero alleged that the constable thrashed him, tied him to a camel and took him to a jungle and demanded a goat from him. He said his sister saw him and told her father, who came and gave a goat to the constable and got him released from him.
Rano, Valji, Bijlo, Kastooro and other Kolhis have also complained of excesses by ASI Hami Singh, head constable Amolakh, Esro and Pathai Kumbhar, posted at the Adhigam police-post.
The Kolhis were forced by police to give goats, kids, ghee, milk, firewood, grain and fodder for their horses and camels as gratification, they said, besides cash bribery.
The poor Kolhis were selling their lands to migrate to some other place to escape from the excesses of the Adhigam police, they said.
