The Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Thursday that instead of outsourcing recovery of bills to private companies, it was better to utilise the services of National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
Dar chairing a high-level meeting asked chairman NAB and secretary Water and Power to devise strategy for quick recovery of outstanding power bills. Dar asked NAB to resume the recovery exercise on fast track basis.
NAB chairman Qamar Zaman, Secretary Finance Dr Waqar Masood, Secretary Water and Power Younus Dhaga, Advisor Finance Division Rana Asad Amin and other senior officials attended the meeting.
Both private as well as public sector entities and domestic consumers were among the defaulters.
This situation could not be allowed to go on any further, the meeting agreed.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 19th, 2014.
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