The generation and distribution functions should entirely be handed over to the provinces.
PARIS: This is with reference to the story “Ask, and you shall receive: Govt ready to hand K-P Pesco reins” (December 23). The PTI should accept this offer with both hands and show the PML-N the way, but after obtaining two written guarantees:
1) The fruits of improvement in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) electricity distribution will be equitably shared within the province. K-P is one of the country’s least electrified provinces and faces disproportionate amount of electricity shortage despite its sizeable contribution to generated power; 2) Both electricity distribution and generation will be handed over to the provincial government, and not merely the thankless job of controlling line losses.
On a general note, if this is a sincere attempt at improving the country’s electricity crisis, the generation and distribution functions should entirely be handed over to the provinces allowing them the freedom to manage their resources themselves.
Mazhar Mughal
Published in The Express Tribune, December 29th, 2013.
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