{"id":249157,"date":"2022-03-13T08:29:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T03:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=249157"},"modified":"2022-03-13T08:29:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T03:29:15","slug":"electricity-price-hike-to-sabotage-pms-industry-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/electricity-price-hike-to-sabotage-pms-industry-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity price hike to \u2018sabotage\u2019 PM\u2019s industry package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> KARACHI<br \/>\nThe Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry\u2019s Businessmen Panel (BMP) on Saturday called for devising mechanism at the earliest to implement the government\u2019s announcement of Rs5 per unit reduction in electricity tariff, as the NEPRA continues to jack up power rates under the guise of fuel adjustment charges.<br \/>\nReacting to recent increase in prices of electricity, BMP Chairman and FPCCI former president Mian Anjum Nisar said that the trade and industry are still in the dark on the mechanism to implement Prime Minister\u2019s cut in power tariff while the NEPRA continues to allow power distribution companies to jack up electricity cost, sabotaging the Prime Minister\u2019s relief package for the industry to cut the cost of production.<br \/>\n\u201cThe business community condemned the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) for shifting power distribution companies\u2019 (DISCOs) line losses burden of almost Rs58 billion to the consumers by jacking up the tariff by Rs5.94 per unit on the excuse of Fuel Charges Adjustment (FCA) to be charged through March 2022 electricity bills,\u201d Zahid said in a statement.<br \/>\nMian Anjum Nisar said that the regulatory authority had earlier increased power tariff by Rs3.09 per unit on account of FCA for Dec 2021 which placed an additional burden of Rs30 billion on the power consumers while more than 8.5 billion units of electricity were used in December last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry\u2019s Businessmen Panel (BMP) on Saturday called for devising mechanism at the earliest to implement the government\u2019s announcement of Rs5 per unit reduction in electricity tariff, as the NEPRA continues to jack up power rates under the guise of fuel adjustment charges. 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