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Activity at Roll Our Sites in Punjab
In Punjab several activities are being carried out at the Roll out sites. The pace of work at these sites are improving day by day. These activities includes the site preparation, WAN connection availability, supply of hardware at sites and extension of electricity load. The process of shuttering at all these sites has been successfully completed. Directors and Deputy Director PIFRA Lahore personally visited each site to inspect the pace of work.

The availability of the WAN connectivity has also been communicated by the PTCL authorities at the said sites. At some sites the connection type will be PTCL (DXX) and at others it may be NTC (DSL). The necessary hardware has been provided at all the five sites and Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) has been carried out by Siemens. The uphill task of getting the feasibility and agreement of the local power supplying authorities for extending the electric load has been successfully accomplished. The demand notice were issued for the sites and payment had been made by PIFRA Islamabad accordingly. The electricity connections for extra load at the sites will be provided as soon as the sites are made ready for use.

In order to expedite the timely completion of sites in all respects, the Director met Chairman Wapda and apprised him about the significance and importance of this Project. The Chairman Wapda issued necessary directions to LESCO and MEPCO Authorities for extending corporation immediately. The remaining Rollout sites including Kasur, Okara, Sahiwal, Khanewal, Multan, Bahawalpur, DG Khan and Rahim Yar Khan have been handed over to the contractors. Accordingly the work has been started and demand notice for extension of electric load are in process. WAN connectivity is now available at all the sites while hardware has been provided with OAT as well.