Federal cabinet also slashes 40% fuel quota for government employees
\nISLAMABAD
\nFist tight; Saturday holiday restored, 40% fuel cut and ban on buying new vehicle, recruitment, official lunch, dinner and high teas imposed in cabinet meeting yesterday (Tuesday).
\nSub-committee will be made to decide on early closing of markets.
\nCabinet meeting led by PM Shehbaz Sharif has discussed various plans to reduce electricity load shedding hours.
\nMaryum Aurangzeb told in briefing after the cabinet meeting that, electricity demand is 28400 Megawatt, in which 2700Megawatt goes in feeders functioning on lose after which the total demand remains 25600megawatt and the supply is 21000megawatt, all this show that supply demand gap is 4600megawatt.
\nCabinet meeting approved three and half hours daily load shedding till 6 to 15 June.
\n From 16 June 600Megawatt will be added from Sahiwal coal power plant.
\nFrom 16 to 24 June the load shedding duration will go down to three hours, said Maryum.
\nFrom 25 to 29 June, Karachi power plant K-2 start production to add 1040megawatt to the total production, due to which will reduce load shedding to 2 and half hours.
\nOn 30 June Port Qasim coal plant will add 600megawatt to bring load shedding to 2 hours.
\nShe also told that Saturday holiday will add 386 million annual to the budget.
\nShe also added that committee has been made consider Friday as work from home day.
\nShe said PML-N has solved load shedding issue in last government while PTI did nothing due to which issue raised again.
\nReport on Daska election rigging has also been presented in the cabinet in which members expressed concern on lower staff which is responsible for that rigging is still on working on their posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Federal cabinet also slashes 40% fuel quota for government employees ISLAMABAD Fist tight; Saturday holiday restored, 40% fuel cut and ban on buying new vehicle, recruitment, official lunch, dinner and high teas imposed in cabinet meeting yesterday (Tuesday). Sub-committee will be made to decide on early closing of markets. Cabinet meeting led by PM Shehbaz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1402,2172,4419,8236],"class_list":{"0":"post-264920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-electricity","9":"tag-federal-cabinet","10":"tag-public-sector","11":"tag-saturday-holiday"},"yoast_head":"\n