The Sindh government will pay about Rs 1327.081 million to Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) and Hyderabad Electric Supply Corporation (Hesco) to ensure provision of electricity to villages in these two districts, it is learnt. Out of this amount, Rs 600 million will be paid to KESC and Rs 667.081 to Hesco to energise centuries-old goths in various parts of these two districts, sources in Irrigation and Power Department told Business Recorder on Wednesday. They said that Rs 200 million was being transferred to the account of the KESC to take up the assigned task, while the remaining amount would be paid soon. They added that this electrification program was approved by the Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) in March this year at a cost of Rs 400 million. Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has directed Secretary Irrigation and Power to convene a meeting of elected representatives and KESC officials to finalise the electrification program and shorten the procedural requirement besides accelerating implementation, sources said. So far, they said, at least 119 goths have been identified in Karachi alone by the elected representatives, including MNAs, MPAs, senators, and areas notables. The summaries to energise these goths were approved by the chief minister recently, they added. They said that most of the goths identified by the elected representatives of different towns of Karachi are located in Gadap, Bin Qasim, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Lyari, Malir, Keamari and New Karachi. These goths would be provided electricity by the end of the current year to give equal opportunity for economic development, they said. They said that the government was undertaking Village Electrification Program Phase-I in the province, except Karachi, and the Irrigation and Power Department had during current fiscal year issued work orders to the Hesco for some 613 goths with an estimated cost of 667.081 million. Besides, the Chief Minister's Secretariat is directly processing the proposals of MNAs, MPAs and other notables and sending them to the Hesco for preparing feasibility reports. And, on the basis of feasibility report, the villages are again prioritised and thereafter the Irrigation and Power Department is issuing work orders to undertake village electrification program, sources said.