{"id":344872,"date":"2023-07-23T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=344872"},"modified":"2023-07-23T01:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T20:00:29","slug":"govt-drops-electricity-bombshell-on-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/govt-drops-electricity-bombshell-on-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt drops electricity bombshell on masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Rs7.50 per unit<br \/>\n ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nFederal government has accorded approval to scale up electricity base tariff  by Rs 7.50 per unit. Federal government has raised base tariff from Rs 3 to Rs 7.50 per unit. Cabinet has given approval to summary on hiking the power tariff through circulation.  According to sources the federal government has filed  application for hike  in base tariff in NEPRA.  NEPRA will give its decision after hearing federal government application. Following NEPRA decision the government will issue notification on increase  in power tariff.<br \/>\nIt has been proposed that the base tariff be increased from July 01.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rs7.50 per unit ISLAMABAD Federal government has accorded approval to scale up electricity base tariff by Rs 7.50 per unit. Federal government has raised base tariff from Rs 3 to Rs 7.50 per unit. Cabinet has given approval to summary on hiking the power tariff through circulation. According to sources the federal government has filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt drops electricity bombshell on masses<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/govt-drops-electricity-bombshell-on-masses\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt drops electricity bombshell on masses\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rs7.50 per unit ISLAMABAD Federal government has accorded approval to scale up electricity base tariff by Rs 7.50 per unit. 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