ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Energy Sardar Owais Leghari has said that overbilling of crores of rupees is being done, more than half of the economic breakdown is due to the inefficiency of the power sector.
While giving a press conference in Islamabad, he said that the losses in the electricity sector are the biggest challenge, the losses of the discos are more than 560 billion, the officers and employees sitting in the discos are also the cause of the failure of the sector, 20 percent of the employees of the discos are electricity. They are involved in theft and incompetence, the country can no longer bear the burden of these thieves and robbers.
Owais Laghari said that actions are being taken against electricity thieves, overbilling of crores of rupees is being done, before April 23, there are orders for every lineman SDO to walk in the SDO and line and check the coils on every feeders. will, giving full powers to the boards, they will be responsible for their decisions; if the power sector is fixed, the economy can be fixed.
The Energy Minister said that a complete review has been conducted in the last two to three weeks on the instructions of the Prime Minister, the reforms related to the power sector have been decided, the details related to the reforms will be given next week, the rationalization of the price of the solar unit has become necessary. , we have to see why the poor man should be burdened with caspity?
Owais Leghari said that the decision regarding the new boards will be taken by the cabinet by next week, the privatization of discos is necessary, it is not written anywhere that the secretary minister should run them, the discos running at a loss will be privatized and it will happen in any case, from today. After a month, the boards of the discos will be accountable for the performance.
