The Sindh government and the Shanghai Electric is all set to jointly start development work on 1320 megawatts of coal-powered electricity project in Thar from where 660 megawatts already being supplied to the national grid. Sindh Energy Minister, Imtiaz Shaikh said, speaking at the Sindh Assembly on Thursday. The post-budget discussion entered the fourth day with members from both sides continued to dissect the next financial year plan."Thar mining and coal energy could help reduce the country's $10 billion oil import bill, if fully exploited," Imtiaz Shaikh said. He further said the coal being excavated from Thar fields could produce cheaper electricity if utilised for power generation and will help fulfil the country's future needs of electricity.The GDA female lawmaker Nusrat Sehar Abbasi accused the Sindh government of having been responsible for the problems the public are facing with. She urged PPP to stop blaming the federal government for its failure in Sindh. She said that the Sindh budget is nothing but a game of figures whereas general public cannot understand this anti-people financial plan for the next fiscal year.Abbasi also criticised the chief minister for his budget speech in English, saying he should have either presented the fiscal plan in national language Urdu or his mother-tongue Sindhi. PTI's Imran Shah said that although the government has increased funds for education sector, conditions of schools infrastructure remain in tatters. He pointed out a school in district Thatta which he observed with no doors or windows. He said that there are several schemes that are under way for the past many years, highlighting the lack of facilities at the government-run Civil Hospital Karachi.MQM's Javed Hanif said that education system in Sindh stands ruined and healthcare system also has no difference. He called Sindh's a 'bureaucracy budget' that imposed taxes amounting to Rs 48 billion on people of Sindh. "The government has spared rural Sindh from taxes while it placed all the taxes on urban centres of the province," he said, noting a meagre 3pc rural tax only. He said that the Sindh government has no remedy to solve the public problems.