Staff Reporter
Karachi
President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals
Forum and All Karachi Industrial Alliance Mian Zahid Hussain on Monday said consumers of electricity are braving the double-edged sword of continued tariff hike and secret overbilling.
In a statement here on Monday, he said that consumers are deprived of billions of rupees every month to make for the losses, inefficiency and corruption in the power sector. Honest consumers are being punished for power theft and reduction in demand due to its high price.
Mian Zahid Hussain said power sector is losing over a billion rupees per day but power distribution companies are less interested in improving governance, initiate reforms and contain theft as well as losses.
These companies have started distributing losses on unsuspecting consumers through overbilling which is burdening poor masses and contributing to a hike in the price of everything, he said adding that the business community can only dream of competitive electricity tariff so that they can compete with regional countries in the international market.
The veteran business leader said that different governments have poured hundreds of billion rupees in a bid to improve the power sector but to no avail. A present demand is less than supply but no city in the country is immune from load-shedding and fluctuation, he maintained.
