In order to provide relief to the agriculture sector and to increase the agriculture produce in the province, the Punjab government has decided to supply cheap electricity to the farmers under which the farmers throughout the province, would get 20 percent reduction in the electricity tariff for agricultural tube-wells, as a result of measure taken in collaboration with Wapda.
The Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said this while chairing a high-level meeting here on Tuesday. Chairman Wapda, Tariq Hameed, also attended the meeting.
Speaking on this occasion, the Chief Minister hoped that the step of providing cheap electricity to the farmers would prove to be the pre-symptom of far-reaching changes in the agriculture field in the province. He pointed out that the farmers would get the benefit from Rs 20 to 90 thousand per annum. Under this scheme of cheap electricity, the timings for the use of electricity by the farmers have been set at 10:00 pm to 6:00 am.
He said that cheap electricity meter would be installed on the submission of an application on a plain paper on the part of the farmers with a photocopy of a paid electricity bill attached to the application.
Meanwhile, a spokesman of the Punjab government disclosed that the Wapda sub-divisional offices would start inviting applications from the interested farmers from July 15 next.