KARACHI: President, SITE Association of Industry (SAI), Abdul Hadi has urged Prime Minister Imran Khan to enhance the load limit for SMEs from 70KW to 140KW so that more industries could avail the 50pc reduced tariff on excess electricity consumption.

Also the procedure for approval of excess load from the K-Electric needs to be simplified, he added.

“It is essential to enhance the limit to 140KW so that more and more SMEs could benefit from the announcement made by the Prime Minister of Pakistan which will not only give boost to the SMEs but also open up more avenues for employment besides stabilizing economy of the country”, Abdul Hadi remarked.

Due to removal of peak hours slab, industries will be able to get electricity on 24 hours basis at the same rate and continue industrial production without interruption.

He said that on using excess load by the industry, the same has to be approved by the K-Electric which is not an easy job. As such, the procedure for load enhancement must be simplified and other associated costs like installation of PMTs etc, should also be reduced.

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