A bridge almost too far
From the Blog odysseuslahoriP. S. A. Berridge, a Bridge Superintendent with whom my father worked as a young Assistant Engineer on the North Western Railway in pre-partition India, wrote a very readable account of this railway network. The book, titled Couplings to the Khyber, has long been my bible. Unfortunately, out of print in Britain there are only a few copies of this book to be found in Pakistan; one in the Railway Headquarters of Lahore and the other in the library of the Department of Archaeology at Karachi. The destroyed bridge at Tanduri Berridge notes that the story of the construction of the line to Quetta has ‘no parallel in the whole of the history of the railways in India.’ Among other things, he tells us, it was the exemplary courage and fortitude of the engineers and ordinary labourers agpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Regulatory framework that exists in the Pakistani power sector
From the Blog lahoreschoolofeconomics Dr. Takuya Nakaizumi, Professor of Kanto-Gakuin University Japan and member of Commission of Administrative Evaluation Bureaus of Ministry of Internal Affair and Communication Japan presented a lecture to the students and faculty at the Center for Research in Economics and Business (CREB), Lahore School of Economics on February 24, 2015. Dr. Nakaizumi is a JICA technical expert on Regulatory Reform and Regulatory Impact Analysis at the Economic Reforms Unit (ERU), Ministry of Finance Pakistan and his expertise is in the areas of Applied Game theory, especially Economics of Regulation and Industrial Organization and Contract Theory. During the lecture, Dr. Nakaizumi explained the regulatory framework that exists in the Pakistani power sector as well as discussing the rolepakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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