The business community has hailed the decision of the government to approve Rs 4.11 per unit reduction in power tariff for January under the monthly fuel price adjustment formula. Reduction in transport fares by 11.90 percent describing it a good step.
President of Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Fareed Mughis A Sheikh said that Government should have to cut the power tariff by Rs 4.50 per/unit for Industrial sector because reduction of Rs 3.24/unit was insufficient.
Fareed Sheikh said that Rs 3/unit be reduced separately for industrial sector to make the production cost viable.
He said that all thermal power stations were running on less expensive furnace oil and efficient plants instead of diesel but no relief was passed on to the consumers which is downright robbery.
The diesel-based power generation cost stood at Rs 12.42 per unit, furnace oil-based at Rs 6.28, gas-based at Rs 6.01, nuclear at Rs 1.12 per unit and imported energy from Iran at Rs 10.60 per unit, resulting in the saving of Rs 32 billion but no relief was given to the Industrial, agricultural and commercial consumers during the last six months.
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