K & P

Mass default: K-P consumers owe Rs80 billion to PESCO

Haq said load-shedding will be proportional to the percentage of bills paid by people of a particular area

Our Correspondent March 26, 2016

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HANGU:

Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) Chief Executive Anwarul Haq has said the people of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) have defaulted on the payment of electricity arrears worth Rs80 billion. He was speaking to journalists during a visit to Hangu on Saturday.

Other senior officials, including chief engineer Iqbal Marwat, were also present on this occasion. Haq said load-shedding will be proportional to the percentage of bills paid by people of a particular area.

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“The areas where there is only 20% recovery will be subjected to 20 hours of load-shedding,” he warned. “However, there will be no load-shedding in those areas where the recovery is 70%.”

According to Haq, people to pay their bills and avoid illegal kunda connections instead of protesting against prolonged power outages.

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The chief executive said the K-P government is providing assistance to eradicate the “kunda culture” and action would be taken against the culprits.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 27^th, 2016.

COMMENTS (4)

Parvez | 8 years ago | Reply It appears that Imran Khan's claim of good governance was just talk.

Anon | 8 years ago | Reply @Karachiite: They either don't know or just don't care. My family and I used to live in Quetta and a couple of houses around us used to simply tear up their bills as soon as they arrived on their doorsteps. When they found out that we paid our bills, they thought we were crazy. And when the authorities used to come along to disconnect the services on account of default, they used to quarrel with them. And it's not just KP or Quetta, this happens all over Pak. How can you expect a people to pay their taxes when they don't even pay their bills for the services that are delivered right to their doorsteps?

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Sceptic | 8 years ago | Reply Power theft and bill defaulting in KP mean that law-abiding consumers of Punjab have to foot the bill by paying higher charges. All electricity distribution companies in Punjab recover over 90% of bills. Yet, the province has to bear the highest amount of loadshedding. How long can Punjab carry along non-performing provinces?

Karachiite | 8 years ago | Reply that's quite an amount for people who claim to place high priority to 'honour'. but then again, maybe they just don't understand what a bill is?

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