The federal government has notified an increase of up to 18 paisas per unit in the electricity tariff for all consumers except those of Karachi effective from December 1, 2020.
According to the notification issued by the Ministry of Energy on Monday, the tariff has been increased from Rs13.35 per unit to Rs13.53 per unit.
“Fifteen paisas per unit increase is applicable on consumers using up to 300 units of electricity” while those using more than 300 units will have to pay 18 paisas per unit more, the notification stated.
“The said adjustment shall be shown separately in the consumer’s bill by the XWDlSCOs and along with abovementioned additional charges applicable for next 10-monthly billing cycles effective from December 01, 2020,” it stated.
“Para c) is added in SRO 1063(1)/2020 dated October 19, 2020 with additional charge of Rs0.15 per unit and additional charge per SRO date 29th November 2019 on all category of consumers (except for lifeline, domestic consumers and commercial consumers for peak load requirement less than 5 kW), and additional charge of Rs0.03 per unit on domestic consumers having consumption more than 300 units and domestic ToU, to account for cross subsidy, so that the consolidated revenue requirement as determined and notified vide SRO dated October 19, 2020 is maintained.”
Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that the energy sector was very important for the country's economy, and stressed that the government was fully focused on meeting energy needs of all sectors.
Chairing a review meeting on energy sector, according to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office, the prime minister said that work was under way to provide targeted subsidies to the deserving consumers.
During the meeting, Imran was given a detailed briefing on the current situation in the energy sector. The prime minister emphasised that the energy sector was very important for the country's economy.
“The government is fully focused on meeting the energy needs of all sectors,” the prime minister, according to the official statement. He added that work was under way to provide targeted subsidies to the deserving consumers.
The meeting was attended by federal ministers Omar Ayub, Khusro Bakhtiar, Dr Hafeez Sheikh, Hammad Azhar, Shibli Faraz, advisers Razak Dawood, Dr Ishrat Hussain, Special Assistants Dr Waqar Masood, Nadeem Babar, Tabish Gohar, K-P Finance Minister Timur Saleem Jhagra and others.
During the meeting, Energy Minister Omar Ayub, Special Assistant Tabish Gohar and the energy secretary briefed the meeting about the improvement in power distribution system. They also apprised the prime minister of the current status of the circular debt.
Referring to the renewable energy policy, Ayub said that the government policy had enhanced the investors’ confidence. Special Assistant Nadeem Babar informed that meeting the government had taken timely steps for the benefit of the gas consumers.
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