No loadshedding during ‘Sehr and Iftar across the country’

Decision taken during Cabinet Committee on Energy meeting chaired by outgoing finance minister Asad Umar

ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) on Thursday decided that there would be no load-shedding during Sehri and Iftar times in Ramazan, directing the Power Division to ensure uninterrupted supply of power in this regard.

The CCoE meeting chaired by outgoing finance minister Asad Umar, expressed concern over complaints of longer duration of load-shedding in rural areas and asked the Power Division to adopt uniformed policy for load management in urban and rural areas and no discrimination should be made in this regard.

On the occasion, the Power Division presented its Internal Audit Report on quarterly Indexation by National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra), which had found that the authority had used high exchange rates during determination of quarterly indexation.

The committee asked the Power Division to ascertain from the regulator whether it had judicially applied its mind while determining the exchange rates.

Power Division briefed the committee about its successful recovery campaign being carried out against the defaulters.

It informed that the recovery campaign had successfully achieved its objectives by collecting Rs318,264 million from November 2018 to February 2019 and arresting 4,225 defaulters.