The MQM-Pakistan has submitted a resolution inSindh Assembly against the independent power producers (IPPs).Leader of Opposition in Sindh Assembly Ali Khurshidi and NajamMirzasubmitted resolution in the assembly’s secretariat.“It will become an issue of survival if capacity charges continued to bepaid to the IPPs,” the resolution read.
“Per unit price of theelectricity has reached to an unbearable level for the industrial anddomestic consumers,” according to the MQM resolution.“Agreements with the IPPs and payments are burden on the economy. Thepower tariff has become intolerable with erroneous agreements made withthe IPPs in past,” according to resolution.
The resolution called the IPP agreements a threat to the nationalsecurity and sovereignty. Earlier, MQM leader Mustafa Kamal demanded of government to cancel thecapacity charges agreement with local IPPs.
Mustafa Kamal talking to media said the situation has reached to theextreme where a brother kills another over the electricity bill payment.“I plead to the prime minister that 70 percent IPPs have been locallyowned. Talk to them over the mistaken policy, they have earned thousandsof billions and now we could not pay them more,” MQM leader said.Mustafa Kamal said he has talked with the NEPRA to fix the K-Electrictariff.
The regulator must bound the company, not to close a feeder overnon-payment, he said. “The shutdown of a feeder over non-paymentsuspends power supply to every consumer,” he said.He said the power supply system in Pakistan could not be corrected untilmore than one companies operating in the field.
“There are more than onecompanies across the world and until the monopoly will not end, a commonconsumer could not get relief,” he added.
