The finance ministry has not supported an official proposal to appoint senior armed forces officers as heads of new Performance Management Units (PMUs) in the rotten power distribution companies to improve their management. But the finance ministry backed the original decision of the Special Investment Facilitation Council to give a role to the armed forces in an ongoing anti-electricity theft campaign.
A senior official of the Ministry of Energy said a few days ago that the army also did not want a role in the management of the power distribution companies and the proposal was floated by the energy ministry to involve the armed forces. The proposal of setting up new PMUs and appointing senior army officers as heads had not been floated by the SIFC. It was rather the idea of the Power Division, which the finance ministry did not support. Sources in the Ministry of Energy said that the Ministry of Finance has not supported its summary to the federal cabinet for handing over the management of the power distribution companies to the army, police and intelligence agencies. The energy ministry wanted to set up new PMUs in distribution companies under the command of brigadiers.
